The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the claims for service connection for right knee and ankle disorders, both of which are secondary to the service-connected right leg disability.,With respect to the reopened claims, the Board finds that it is as likely as not that the appellant's current diagnoses of right knee patella pain syndrome/strain with arthritis and right ankle strain are related to his service-connected right leg disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a finding that the appellant's current right knee and ankle conditions are causally related to his service-connected right leg disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disorder, Right Ankle Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 1, 2009
- Citation
- 0920407
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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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