The Board has determined that the veteran's bilateral knee condition is secondary to his service-connected flat feet and granted this claim.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the veteran's bilateral flat feet likely aggravated his bilateral knee conditions, warranting service connection on a secondary basis.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 9, 2001
- Citation
- 0113212
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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.
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