The Board has determined that the Veteran's right ankle degenerative joint disease is proximately due to his service-connected right knee disability, left knee disability, and left ankle disability. Therefore, the claim for service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding that the Veteran's right ankle disability was caused by or aggravated by his service-connected orthopedic disabilities, including the right knee arthritis, the left knee arthritis, the left ankle arthritis, and possibly the left foot arthritis.
- Claimed conditions
- Right ankle degenerative joint disease, Left total knee replacement (left knee disability), Left ankle disability
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 4, 2016
- Citation
- 1617947
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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