The Board has reopened the claim of service connection for a left ankle disorder and granted it on a secondary basis to the service-connected right knee disability. The Veteran's current diagnosed left side anterior tendonitis tibialis, osteochondritis, and degenerative joint disease are found to be causally related to her service-connected right knee disability.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there is at least equipoise evidence showing a causal relationship between the Veteran's currently diagnosed left ankle disorders and her service-connected right knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- left ankle stress fracture, left side anterior tendonitis tibialis, osteochondritis, degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 17, 2015
- Citation
- 1525855
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What this means for you
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