The Board has determined that the Veteran's lumbar spine disability is related to his active service, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the Veteran’s lumbar spine disability is at least as likely as not due to an in-service back injury.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative arthritis, lumbar spine, kyphoscoliosis, anterolisthesis L5-S1
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 18, 2020
- Citation
- 20034573
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted an earlier effective date of December 6, 2001 for service connection for degenerative arthritis, lumbar spine based on newly associated service personnel records.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected conditions do not prevent him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Dismissed
The issues of service connection for degenerative arthritis, lumbar spine; right leg radiculopathy; and degenerative arthritis, cervical spine are dismissed as the Board granted service connection in a separate appeal stream.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew her appeals for service connection for scoliosis, Bertolotti syndrome, kyphoscoliosis, and left hip femoral-acetabular impingement syndrome.
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