The Board has granted secondary service connection for mechanical low back pain, finding that it is proximately due to or the result of service-connected knee impairment. The final two issues regarding rating excess of 10 percent for left and right knee chondromalacia are remanded.
The deciding factor: Secondary service connection was established as the veteran's mechanical low back pain is causally related to his service-connected knee impairments.
- Claimed conditions
- mechanical low back pain, left knee chondromalacia, right knee chondromalacia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2001
- Citation
- 0101221
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- Dismissed
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