The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the Veteran's claims of service connection for various disabilities, including left knee, cervical spine, psychiatric, and stomach surgery disabilities. The Board finds that these conditions are secondary to his service-connected right knee disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence is at least evenly balanced as to whether the Veteran's current disabilities were caused by his service-connected right knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee pes bursitis, degenerative joint disease, degenerative changes of the lumbar spine, bulging annulus at L3-L4 and L4-L5, displacement of lumbar intervertebral disc, lumbosacral root lesion, lumbar strain, cervical strain, cervical spondylosis with nerve impingement at C5/6, major depression NOS, anxiety disorder NOS, bilateral cervical radiculopathy/peripheral neuropathy of the upper extremities, bilateral lumbar radiculopathy/peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- January 18, 2018
- Citation
- 1803164
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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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