The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claim of service connection for degenerative disc disease and degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine secondary to his service-connected bilateral knee disability. The Board finds that these conditions are proximately due to or the result of his service-connected knee disability.
The deciding factor: The majority of VA health professionals, including a recent VA examiner, have expressed opinions linking the veteran's current lumbar spine disabilities to his knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative disc disease, degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 19, 2002
- Citation
- 0212451
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
The Board granted service connection for lumbar spine degenerative arthritis, degenerative disc disease, lumbosacral strain, and spinal stenosis based on the Veteran's in-service back injury and chronicity of symptoms.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for lumbosacral strain and degenerative disc disease, finding that the evidence is at least equally balanced in favor of a relationship to an in-service motor vehicle accident.
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