The Veteran's right and left knee joint and muscle pain are found to be due to an undiagnosed illness as a result of service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War, and service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that the Veteran's bilateral knee pain cannot be attributed to a known clinical diagnosis and finds it attributable to an undiagnosed illness due to his service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Joint and Muscle Pain, Left Knee Joint and Muscle Pain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2014
- Citation
- 1446853
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