The Board has determined that the veteran's right knee strain with degenerative joint disease is proximately due to or the result of a service-connected left knee disability. The claim for entitlement to service connection for right hip strain is not well grounded.
The deciding factor: The VA physician opined that the only relationship between the veteran's right knee disorder and his service-connected left knee and lumbosacral strain disorders was their occurrence at the same time, with no other causal link established.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Strain with Degenerative Joint Disease, Right Hip Strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0003478
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What this means for you
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