The Board has granted service connection for various conditions, including knee and shin injuries, hand scars, and a hernia. The veteran's low back, right hand, chest/ribs, skin disorder (tinea versicolor), and eye disability claims are also addressed.
The deciding factor: Service records show multiple injuries during active duty which led to current disabilities such as knee chondromalacia patella, shin splints, left hand scars from a puncture injury, right leg scars from nevi excision, and inguinal hernia. The Board found these conditions are related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee chondromalacia patella, bilateral shin splints, left hand scar (residual of left hand puncture injury), two scars at the right leg (residuals of right leg nevi excision)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- February 8, 2000
- Citation
- 0003137
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 40 percent rating for the Veteran's low back disability and a 10 percent rating for bilateral shin splints, while denying increased ratings for other disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection and increased ratings, as well as remanded certain issues.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral shin splints and left knee osteoarthritis as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were related to the Veteran's military service.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, dismissing or denying all appeals.
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