The Board found that there is no evidence of a nexus between any current bilateral knee or foot disability and the Veteran's active service, and thus denied her claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner could not resolve whether the Veteran’s current bilateral knee and/or foot disabilities were related to her military service without resorting to mere speculation.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic bilateral knee disability, chronic disability involving the feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2010
- Citation
- 1042632
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection were denied as there is no evidence of a chronic acquired psychiatric disability, hypertension or hypertensive heart disease, or bilateral knee disability during service. The Board found that the current disabilities are not related to service.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals have been dismissed as he has withdrawn his appeals of the determinations in the October 2010 and March 2012 rating decisions.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's chronic bilateral knee disability, including arthritis and status-post bilateral TKA, did not have its onset during active military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board is remanding the case to consider whether new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for a chronic bilateral knee disability, as well as issues regarding left hip trochanteric bursitis (to include as due to service-connected right hip trochanteric bursitis) and bilateral heel spurs. The Veteran is being asked to provide any relevant medical records from Johnston Island Base Hospital.
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