The Board found no evidence of current left or right knee disorders related to active service and denied the Veteran's claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: There was insufficient medical evidence linking the Veteran's current bilateral knee disorders to his military service, as evidenced by the absence of treatment records during service and the lack of continuity of symptomatology post-service.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee injury residuals, right knee injury residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 19, 2010
- Citation
- 1002666
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