Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a back condition to be addressed with a new, adequate medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The previous opinions were found inadequate due to reliance on the absence of contemporaneous records and failure to consider the Veteran's statements about in-service injury.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with intervertebral disc syndrome, herniated disc at L5-S1
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25102258
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