The Board denied service connection for degenerative joint disease of the left shoulder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral knee disability, finding that there was no medical evidence supporting a link between the two conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the service-connected bilateral knee disability did not cause or aggravate the Veteran's left shoulder condition.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease, left shoulder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2020
- Citation
- 20067099
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