The Board has granted service connection for a low back disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral pes planus. The initial ratings for degenerative joint disease of various joints have been granted.
The deciding factor: Medical evidence is in equipoise regarding whether the service-connected bilateral pes planus disability caused or aggravated the low back disorder, and the Board has resolved doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disorder, degenerative joint disease of the right hip, degenerative joint disease of the left hip, degenerative joint disease of the right knee, degenerative joint disease of the left knee, degenerative joint disease of the right ankle, degenerative joint disease of the left ankle
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 20, 2010
- Citation
- 1002987
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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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