Service connection for right ear hearing loss, back disorder, left knee disorder, and right lower extremity radiculopathy is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected right knee disability is found to cause or aggravate his back disorder, which in turn causes a left knee disorder. The right lower extremity radiculopathy is also found to be caused by the back disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Ear Hearing Loss, Back Disorder (secondary to right knee disability), Left Knee Disorder (secondary to right knee disability), Right Lower Extremity Radiculopathy (secondary to back disorder)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18141841
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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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