The Board has reopened the claim of service connection for a left knee disability and granted it as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected right knee disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence provided by an orthopedic doctor established that the severe osteoarthritis of the right knee put significant stress on the Veteran's left knee, resulting in severe osteoarthritis of the left knee.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Knee Osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 9, 2010
- Citation
- 1046096
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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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