The Board denied service connection for a back disorder, right hip disorder, and psychiatric disorder as secondary to the service-connected right knee disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish that any of these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by service or are related to the service-connected right knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Back disorder, Right hip disorder, Psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2005
- Citation
- 0517750
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