The Board has granted service connection for bilateral knee degenerative changes and bilateral ankle pain with impingement, some cortical thickening of the left ankle and slight prominence involving anterolateral aspect of each ankle, both conditions claimed as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected pes planus.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner attributed the Veteran's bilateral knee and ankle disabilities to his service-connected pes planus based on research findings.
- Claimed conditions
- knee condition, ankle condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 22, 2014
- Citation
- 1437675
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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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