The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's left shoulder and right elbow conditions as secondary to his service-connected right knee condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that both conditions are due to prolonged use of crutches to treat the service-connected right knee condition.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder subacromial/subdeltoid bursitis, right elbow epicondylitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2018
- Citation
- 18142591
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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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