The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a left-knee disorder as secondary to his service-connected left-ankle disorder due to the lack of current disability evidence.
The deciding factor: There is no competent and credible evidence establishing a current left-knee disability at any point during the period on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- left-knee disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2018
- Citation
- 18142472
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has reopened the previously denied claims of service connection for right-knee disorder, left-knee disorder, cervical-spine disorder, thoracic-spine disorder, and lumbar-spine disorder. The gastrointestinal disorder claim remains denied as there is no evidence supporting its service connection.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for left-knee disorder, finding no evidence of a current disability that was incurred or aggravated by active service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to new evidence being added to the record since the last decision in 2017. The AOJ is instructed to consider this new evidence and issue a Supplemental Statement of the Case (SSOC).
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to insufficient in-service medical records. The Veteran needs to provide information about his injuries and treatment during service, and VA will attempt to obtain any missing records.
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