The Board has granted service connection for a left elbow disability as secondary to the veteran's service-connected left knee disability. The effective date of this grant is not addressed in the decision.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence is in equipoise regarding whether the veteran's service-connected left knee disability caused his fall resulting in a proximal radius fracture, status post open reduction internal fixation with early evidence of osteonecrosis.
- Claimed conditions
- Left elbow disability, Left knee instability of the collateral ligament with osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 22, 2007
- Citation
- 0718888
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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.
What you can do next
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