The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral ankle, leg, knee and hip disabilities as secondary to his service-connected bilateral pes planus.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not diagnose any of the claimed disabilities and found that the veteran's complaints of pain were more likely due to abnormal forces caused by his pes planus.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral ankle disability, Bilateral leg disability, Bilateral knee disability, Bilateral hip disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 31, 2001
- Citation
- 0115176
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