The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for lumbosacral strain, right tarsal tunnel syndrome and reflex sympathetic dystrophy of the ankle and foot, left heel spur, and degenerative joint disease of the right knee, all secondary to her service-connected chondromalacia of the left knee with chronic tenosynovitis.
The deciding factor: The Board found that none of the claimed conditions were attributable to service or were proximately related to or aggravated by the veteran's service-connected chondromalacia of the left knee with chronic tenosynovitis.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain, right tarsal tunnel syndrome of the ankle and foot with reflex sympathetic dystrophy, left heel spur, degenerative joint disease of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 19, 2000
- Citation
- 0027636
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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