The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left knee and back disabilities, finding that there is no competent evidence linking these conditions to his active duty or to his service-connected right knee disability.
The deciding factor: VA medical examinations did not find a direct link between the Veteran's service-connected right knee disability and either of his claimed disabilities. The examiner also found it less likely than not that the Veteran's left knee pes tendonitis was due to or aggravated by his service-connected chronic strain of the right medial collateral ligament.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Knee Disability, Back Disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 2, 2010
- Citation
- 1004845
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