The Board has granted service connection for bilateral total knee arthroplasties as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected stress fractures of the tibia and pes planus.
The deciding factor: The private provider opined that the service-connected foot disabilities more likely than not proximately caused the left and right knee disabilities, leading to the need for total knee arthroplasties.
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee total arthroplasty, Left knee total arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 24, 2020
- Citation
- 20049550
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What this means for you
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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