The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral knee disability as secondary to a service-connected disease or disability, including his previously denied claim for service connection for bilateral pes planus.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not have any service-connected disabilities and his previously denied claim for service connection for bilateral pes planus was not currently on appeal. The evidence did not show that the Veteran's bilateral knee disability was caused or aggravated by a service-connected disability, including his bilateral foot disability (pes planus).
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee patellofemoral syndrome, bilateral medial compartment early osteoarthritis with varus deformities, bilateral medial compartment syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 25, 2010
- Citation
- 1039960
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