The Board has determined that the veteran's right leg disability is not related to his service-connected left leg injury and thus denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: Multiple VA examiners have concluded that the current right leg disability is unrelated to the service-connected left leg condition, with one examiner stating it was due to compensatory adjustments in gait and posture rather than the left leg condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Leg Disability, Peripheral Neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 11, 2007
- Citation
- 0717402
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