The Board has granted service connection for left and right knee conditions, finding that the Veteran's current disabilities are at least as likely as not related to her in-service duties.
The deciding factor: The Board accepted the Veteran's accounts of in-service events and found that her current knee conditions are at least as likely as not caused by her military occupational specialty duties.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee osteoarthritis, right knee patellofemoral syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19115970
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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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for hypertension and remanded the claims for bilateral tinnitus, right knee osteoarthritis, and left knee osteoarthritis due to inadequate medical evidence.
- Granted
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