The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a back and bilateral knee disorders as secondary to his service-connected bilateral flat feet, finding no evidence of in-service aggravation or worsening of the flat feet.
The deciding factor: The veteran does not have a service-connected disorder upon which to base secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Flat Feet, Back Condition, Bilateral Knee Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0122177
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