The Veteran's depression is found to be secondary to his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities.,A private medical opinion supports the finding that the Veteran's lumbar spine condition, including degenerative arthritis with IVDS and disc protrusion, is aggravated by his service-connected bilateral knee conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran provided competent evidence associating a diagnosis of depression to his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities. A private medical opinion provided competent evidence of aggravation of the Veteran's lumbar spine condition (variously diagnosed as degenerative arthritis with IVDS and disc protrusion) by his service-connected bilateral knee conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Depression, Degenerative Arthritis of the Lumbar Spine with IVDS and Disc Protrusion
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2018
- Citation
- 1803083
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