The Board has determined that the veteran's right patellofemoral syndrome is secondary to his service-connected left leg disabilities and has granted service connection for this condition. The low back disorder claim was reopened due to new evidence, but no rating assigned as it remains unresolved.
The deciding factor: Right patellofemoral syndrome is found to be a result of the veteran's service-connected left knee disability, meeting the secondary service connection criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Right patellofemoral syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 28, 2006
- Citation
- 0626688
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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.
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- Denied
The Board found that the evidence did not support a rating in excess of 10 percent for right and left patellofemoral syndrome.
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