The Board has determined that the veteran's degenerative joint disease of the left knee is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected right knee disorder, and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Multiple medical opinions indicate that the service-connected right knee disability, together with trauma incurred as a result of parachute jumping, most likely caused the left knee degenerative joint disease due to unequal weight bearing.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative joint disease of the left knee
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 7, 2002
- Citation
- 0209276
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What this means for you
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