Granted
The Board granted service connection for multiple spinal conditions and a right foot disorder, effective from the date of the September 2024 rating decision.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on the Veteran's competent report of recurrent symptoms and positive nexus opinions linking the disorders to his active military service.
- Claimed conditions
- disc desiccation and protrusion of the lumbosacral spine, lumbar radiculopathy of the left lower extremity, lumbar radiculopathy of the right lower extremity, spondylosis and disc bulge of the cervical spine, cervical radiculopathy of the left upper extremity, cervical radiculopathy of the right upper extremity, right foot disorder, to include right foot great toe strain, thoracic spine disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25109001
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