The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for a left knee disability and determined that it was incurred during active duty for training. Service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The appellant's current left knee patellofemoral chondromalacia began during her active duty for training, and there is sufficient evidence of continuity of symptomatology to trace the condition back to service.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee patellofemoral chondromalacia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 21, 2001
- Citation
- 0114192
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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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