The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for higher ratings for his knee disabilities and sinusitis are mixed, with some issues granted and others not. The low back disorder is found to be secondary to service-connected right and left knee disabilities.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the low back disorder is proximately due to the veteran's service-connected right and left knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Chondromalacia, left knee, Low back disorder (claimed as secondary to service-connected right and left knee disabilities), Status/post anterior cruciate tear, right knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0601575
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Decisions by this judge: 1,242 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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