The Board has reopened the previously denied claims for service connection for right knee, right thumb, gastrointestinal disabilities, and residuals of broken teeth, all claimed as secondary to service-connected left knee disability. However, it did not find sufficient evidence to establish service connection for any of these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no objective evidence of in-service right knee symptoms or credible continuity of such symptoms since service. The Veteran was first diagnosed with a right knee disability many years post-service and the only opinion addressing its etiology related to her military service or service-connected left knee disability found it not related.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disability, Right Thumb Disability, Gastrointestinal Disability, Residuals of Broken Teeth
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 12, 2016
- Citation
- 1614699
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- Denied
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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