The Board has granted the reopening of the claim for service connection for left and right knee disabilities, but denied both claims.,Service connection was not established for either left or right knee disability as they did not begin in service or within one year thereafter and are not etiologically related to an in-service event or injury.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not establish that the Veteran's knee disabilities began during service or were caused by any incident of service.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Knee Degenerative Changes, Right Knee Degenerative Joint Disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- February 14, 2019
- Citation
- 19112062
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