The claims for service connection for low back, bilateral hip, and bilateral foot disabilities are reopened. However, the Veteran's conditions are not found to be related to his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities or due to any other service-related factors.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner could find no causal relationship between the service-connected bilateral knee disabilities and the Veteran’s low back, bilateral hip, and bilateral foot disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back, Bilateral hip, Bilateral foot
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 17, 2018
- Citation
- 18127295
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