The veteran's service-connected bilateral pes planus has aggravated his nonservice-connected degenerative and discogenic disease of the lumbar spine, resulting in radiculopathy. The Board finds that this constitutes a classic Allen situation where the aggravation is proximately due to the service-connected condition.
The deciding factor: Service connection for the veteran's lumbar spine pathology was granted as secondary to his service-connected bilateral pes planus because the pes planus has caused biomechanical stress in the veteran's lumbar spine, resulting in the aggravation of co-existing and otherwise unrelated lumbar spine pathology.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative and discogenic disease of the lumbar spine, bilateral leg radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 22, 2001
- Citation
- 0105415
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