The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a right knee disorder and a bilateral foot disorder, finding that there is no evidence of such disorders being incurred or aggravated in service, or related to a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: There was no medical evidence linking the current disabilities to service or a service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Arthritis, Bilateral Foot Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 1, 2005
- Citation
- 0502295
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What this means for you
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for OSA and a bilateral foot disorder to obtain additional medical opinions.
- Partly granted
The appeal was dismissed for the claim of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, and service connection for migraine headaches was restored. Several claims for service connection were denied.
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