The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of a right knee disorder as secondary to his service-connected left knee disorder is granted, with the effective date set at February 28, 1991.
The deciding factor: The veteran repeatedly asserted that his right knee had deteriorated due to overcompensating for his service-connected left knee disorder. The Board found this amounted to a claim of secondary service connection and determined the earliest possible effective date based on the receipt of his original claim in February 1991.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- November 28, 2006
- Citation
- 0636742
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