The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's low back condition, diagnosed as lumbar DDD and HNP. The issue of service connection for a left wrist condition is remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran’s low back condition had its onset in service, and the Board finds that it did.
- Claimed conditions
- low back condition, diagnosed as lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD) and herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), left wrist condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 18, 2020
- Citation
- 20074172
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Decisions by this judge: 2,249 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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