The Board granted service connection for bilateral sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected low back condition, lumbar sprain.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion provided a nexus between the Veteran's lower extremity conditions and his service-connected low back disability, leading to the grant of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- left sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia of left lower extremity, right sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia of right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25103878
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 868 · Granted: 42% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
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- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's chronic sinusitis is granted as service-connected.,The Veteran's shin splints of the left leg and right leg are both granted as secondary to his service-connected lumbar strain.,The Veteran's left sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia and right sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia are both granted as secondary to his service-connected lumbar strain.,These grants of service connection are effective from the date of the decision, January 27, 2026.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral tinnitus, left and right sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia, allergic rhinitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and an initial rating in excess of 40 percent for lumbosacral strain.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
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