Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for reconsideration of the October 1991 rating decision that denied service connection for a lumbar spine disability and to obtain an opinion on whether the Veteran's current lumbar spine disability was onset during service or within one year of separation from service.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to new evidence suggesting degenerative disc disease may have been present during service, which could support a grant of service connection on a direct basis.
- Claimed conditions
- Lumbar spine disability, Left lower extremity sciatica (secondary to lumbar spine disability), Right lower extremity sciatica (secondary to lumbar spine disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2025
- Citation
- 25012417
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