The Board has reopened the veteran's claims for service connection for a right knee disorder and left knee pain, finding that new evidence supports these claims. The right knee disorder is considered to have been aggravated during service, while the left knee pain claim lacks sufficient new evidence.
The deciding factor: The preexisting right knee disorder was found to be aggravated by service, but there is no clear and unmistakable evidence to rebut this presumption of aggravation.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disorder, Left Knee Pain
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2001
- Citation
- 0125191
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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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