The Veteran's GERD is rated as noncompensably disabling. The right knee disability has been granted service connection and assigned a 10 percent rating for the period from March 29, 2010 to December 17, 2012, and a 30 percent rating thereafter. Service connection was also established for bilateral foot disorder as secondary to his service-connected right knee disability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's GERD is manifested by persistently recurrent epigastric distress with occasional pyrosis without evidence of dysphagia or substernal or arm/shoulder pain productive of considerable impairment of health. The right knee disability has been rated as 10 percent disabling for the period from March 29, 2010 to December 17, 2012 and 30 percent thereafter due to limitation of flexion and extension.
- Claimed conditions
- GERD, degenerative joint disease (right knee), bilateral foot disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 14, 2015
- Citation
- 1539170
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