![]() On January 8, 2019, he reported that he was pulling a box of tiles weighing about 70 pounds from a shelf when he experienced pain in his low back. In December 2018 he started noticing pain and numbness down his left leg that felt like a recurrence of his pain from 20. The employee began work for Home Depot in June 2018. He later reported that he had low back pain almost daily and just treated it at home. The employee had no further treatment for his low back until January 2019. Dino Terzio performed a left L5-S1 hemilaminectomy and microdiscectomy, decompressing the left L5 nerve root. ![]() An MRI in July 2015 showed that the L5-S1 disc had extruded and had likely entrapped the left S1 nerve root. Lynn Quenemeon on January 2, 2015, the employee maintained he had no history of back pain and thought his back pain might be from heavy work at his current job. An MRI on November 10, 2014, showed disc desiccation, a small central protrusion at L5-S1 abutting the nerve root, and facet joint hypertrophy. At an urgent care visit in 2013, the employee described going to a chiropractor “off and on.” The employee injured his low back on October 30, 2014, which he attributed to the physical nature of his work at Union Gospel Missions. In December 2007, the employee was seen in urgent care at St. Luke’s Hospital for low back pain that he reported was related to a wrestling injury he suffered as a senior in high school. He had a history of low back pain and treatment before his employment with Home Depot. At that time, the employee was 48 years of age. The employee, Brent Tweet, began working for Home Depot in June 2018. ![]() ![]() Twomey, Aafedt, Forde, Gray, Monson and Hager, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the Respondents. Balmer, Falsani, Balmer, Peterson & Balmer, Duluth, Minnesota, for the Appellant. The employee’s medical record and the well-founded opinion of a medical expert constitutes substantial evidence to support the compensation judge’s findings that the employee’s work injury was temporary and resolved, and did not substantially aggravate the employee’s preexisting medical condition.Īttorneys: James W. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COURT OF APPEALSĬAUSATION - MEDICAL TREATMENT CAUSATION - TEMPORARY AGGRAVATION CAUSATION - PREEXISTING CONDITION. and BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MN, Intervenors. CO., Employer-Insurer/Respondents, and MINN. ![]()
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