Therefore, under the any evidence rule, the board's finding of disability beginning in 1970 must be affirmed. Pearce v. Pacific Employers Ins. Group, 131 Ga. App. 792 ( 207 S.E.2d 207). 8.
1. Under numerous decisions of this court, an award of the Workmen's Compensation Board will not be disturbed where there is any evidence to support it. Wilson v. Aragon Mills, 110 Ga. App. 392, 393 ( 138 S.E.2d 596). See also Pearce v. Pacific Emp. Ins. Group, 131 Ga. App. 792 ( 207 S.E.2d 207) and cits. 2.
Held: 1. An award by the State Board of Workmen's Compensation will not be disturbed if there is any competent evidence to support it. Dollar v. Hunt's Supermarket, 132 Ga. App. 5 ( 207 S.E.2d 208); Pearce v. Pacific Employers Ins. Group, 131 Ga. App. 792 ( 207 S.E.2d 207); Davidson v. Fidelity Cas. Co. of New York, 108 Ga. App. 51, 52 ( 131 S.E.2d 863). Particularly, matters of weight and credit of the testimony and conflicts in the evidence are solely matters for determination by the board. Brown Transport Corp. v. Jenkins, 129 Ga. App. 457 (1) ( 199 S.E.2d 910); Travelers Ins. Co. v. Buice, 124 Ga. App. 626 ( 185 S.E.2d 549); Roper v. General Motors Corp., 121 Ga. App. 163 ( 173 S.E.2d 240).
STOLZ, Judge. In the absence of fraud, an award of the Workmen's Compensation Board will not be disturbed where there is any competent evidence to support it. Pearce v. Pacific Employers Inc. Group, 131 Ga. App. 792 and cits. The present award of less compensation and medical expenses than the claimant contends would be authorized, is supported by evidence that the type of injury the claimant sustained is generally disabling for a maximum of only approximately two weeks; that the claimant's not resuming his job at the end of the two-week period was caused by either his own failure to return to work, his inability to work because of pre-existing injuries not related to the nasal injury which is the subject of this claim, or the employer's refusal to permit him to return to work on account of matters unconnected with his work-related injury; and that the balance of the medical expenses contended to be recoverable were not incurred as a result of the presently claimed injury.