The Veteran's low back and right knee disabilities are not service-connected as they are secondary to his service-connected left knee disability. His left total knee replacement is currently rated at 30 percent.
The deciding factor: VA examiners determined that the Veteran's current low back and right knee disabilities were not caused by or aggravated by his service-connected left knee disability due to obesity and lack of scientific evidence supporting a gait-related cause for degenerative joint disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Low Back Disability, Right Knee Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 3, 2010
- Citation
- 1007877
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