The Board has granted service connection for various knee and shoulder disorders, cervical spine disorder, lumbar spine disorder with radiculopathy, and depressive disorder due to medical conditions. The decision also remanded the issues of service connection for hypertension and diabetes.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on secondary service connection criteria as the Veteran's current disabilities are related to his service-connected knee, shoulder, cervical spine, and lumbar spine disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee arthritis, left knee meniscal tear status post meniscectomy, right knee degenerative arthritis, left shoulder degenerative arthritis, right shoulder degenerative arthritis, cervical spine degenerative arthritis, lumbar spine degenerative arthritis with radiculopathy, depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19184975
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 10 percent for right knee meniscal tear with degenerative arthritis and granted a separate 20 percent rating for right knee instability.
- Granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 50 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, characterized as depressive disorder, effective May 1, 2017.
- Partly granted
The Veteran is granted service connection for migraine headaches secondary to tinnitus, effective April 1, 2021. The claim for an earlier effective date for depressive disorder was denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder to obtain a VA examination and etiological opinion.
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