The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's back disorder as secondary to his service-connected left knee degenerative joint disease. The claim for an initial compensable disability rating for erectile dysfunction is denied, and the issue of TDIU is remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a finding that the Veteran's current back disorders are causally related to his service-connected left knee degenerative joint disease.
- Claimed conditions
- multilevel degenerative disease with central bony spinal canal and neural foraminal stenosis, low back osteoarthritis, facet arthropathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 22, 2015
- Citation
- 1517192
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What this means for you
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