The Board has granted the Veteran's petitions to reopen his claims of service connection for a lumbar spine disorder, left hip disorder, and left knee disorder, all secondary to his service-connected left ankle osteoarthritis. Service connection is now established for these conditions.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on the benefit of doubt in favor of the Veteran due to positive opinions linking his lumbar spine, left hip, and left knee disorders to his service-connected left ankle osteoarthritis.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine disorder, left hip disorder, left knee disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- October 17, 2018
- Citation
- 18142834
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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.
What you can do next
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