The Board has granted service connection for right and left knee pain, but denied service connection for shin splints. The veteran's bilateral knee conditions are presumed to be related to his active military service.
The deciding factor: The continuity of symptoms during service and the current diagnoses support a grant of service connection for the knee disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Pain, Left Knee Pain, Shin Splints
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 8, 2002
- Citation
- 0207365
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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