Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a low back disability to obtain an adequate VA medical opinion that considers the Veteran's lay reports of in-service incurrence or continuity of symptomatology.
The deciding factor: The pre-decisional duty to assist error necessitates a remand to correct it by obtaining an appropriate addendum opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25085082
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