The Board has granted service connection for lumbar spine disability and denied service connection for myalgia. The lumbar spine disability is found to be related to service, while the myalgia is not secondary to any service-connected condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that there is no evidence to suggest that any myalgia is either caused or aggravated beyond its natural progression by cervical spine disability and/or lumbar spine disability.
- Claimed conditions
- segmental and somatic dysfunction of thoracic and lumbar spine with associated myalgia, myalgia of the thoracolumbar spine, and degenerative disc disease lumbar spine with associated degenerative arthritis, myalgia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 22, 2023
- Citation
- 23018063
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