The Board has determined that the Veteran's current left knee disability, including patellar spurring, was not incurred or aggravated in service and denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of evidence does not support a finding that the current left knee disability is related to service, with no chronic or recurrent symptoms noted during or following service.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee patellar tendinitis, minimal left knee patellar spurring
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 24, 2011
- Citation
- 1111838
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for headaches and a lumbar spine disability, as well as earlier effective dates of April 19, 2022, for the award of service connection for left and right knee patellar tendinitis.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for a compensable rating for his right knee scar and bilateral hearing loss, and remanded the claims for service connection for intervertebral disc syndrome of the lumbar spine as secondary to Osgood-Schlatter's disease of the right knee and left knee patellar tendinitis as due to the same.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal regarding the ratings for left knee conditions and back pain, leaving no issues to be decided by the Board.
- Granted
The Veteran's low back disability is granted as service-connected. The claims for increased ratings for left and right knee disabilities are remanded.
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