The Board finds that the Veteran's right knee disability is not related to his military service and cannot be considered secondary to a service-connected left knee disability. Therefore, service connection for a right knee disability is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a right knee injury or treatment during active duty, and the VA examiner could not find sufficient evidence that the Veteran's right knee disability was related to his left knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- {"conditionName":"Right Knee Disability"}, {"conditionName":"Left Knee Degenerative Joint Disease and Osgood-Schlatter's disease"}
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 11, 2009
- Citation
- 0922035
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