The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for degenerative joint disease of the knees, secondary to her service-connected low back disability and denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the veteran's current knee disability was not caused or aggravated by her service-connected low back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease of the knees
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0632105
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