The Board has determined that the veteran's current left knee disorder, diagnosed as laxity of the medial collateral ligaments, is linked to a traumatic injury sustained in active service. As such, the claim for service connection for this condition is granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the current left knee condition was just as likely as not due to the documented injury in service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic acquired left knee disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2003
- Citation
- 0329245
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for chronic acquired bilateral knee disorders, finding that the preexisting conditions were not aggravated by active service and that there was no evidence of a nexus to service.
- Granted
The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection of a chronic acquired left knee disorder, as new and material evidence has been submitted.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a chronic acquired left knee disorder, ulcers, bilateral hearing loss, and tinnitus. The decision found that these conditions were not incurred or aggravated by active service, nor could they be presumed to have been incurred in service. Additionally, the Board determined that the veteran's left knee disorder was not proximately due to or worsened by his right knee disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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