The Board has dismissed the appeal for service connection of bilateral retropatellar pain syndrome, back pain and shoulder pain as secondary to service-connected Crohn's disease due to lack of evidence supporting these claims. The veteran was granted service connection for an unfused non-union old fracture of the left navicular bone with degenerative changes.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there is no evidence in the record to support the veteran's claim for bilateral retropatellar pain syndrome, back pain and shoulder pain as secondary to his service-connected Crohn's disease. The claims were dismissed without prejudice.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral retropatellar pain syndrome, Back pain, Bilateral shoulder pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- August 19, 2003
- Citation
- 0320836
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