The Board has granted service connection for left knee disability and psychiatric disability, including anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), both secondary to the residuals of a traumatic brain injury (TBI).
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found it at least as likely as not that the Veteran's left knee condition was incurred in or caused by the claimed in-service injury.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee disability (patellofemoral syndrome), psychiatric disability (adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressive mood)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 6, 2015
- Citation
- 1533499
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What this means for you
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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