The Board has granted the Veteran's petition to reopen her previously denied claim of entitlement to service connection for a left knee disorder and has also determined that she is entitled to service connection for this condition as secondary to her service-connected multilevel degenerative disc disease most noted at L4-L5 and L5-S1. The decision resolves all doubt in favor of the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence was in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's current left knee disorder is aggravated by her service-connected multilevel degenerative disc disease, thus granting service connection for this condition as secondary to her service-connected lumbar spine disability.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee disorder, left knee meniscal tear, left knee joint osteoarthritis, left patellofemoral pain syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2020
- Citation
- 20006570
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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