The Board has granted service connection for bilateral ankle, hip, and foot conditions on a secondary basis due to the Veteran's service-connected left knee condition. Service connection for nummular dermatitis is also granted as it is related to his Persian Gulf War service.
The deciding factor: The February 2019 medical opinion from Dr. S.D. provided sound reasoning linking the Veteran’s current hip, ankle, and foot conditions to his service-connected left knee and low back disabilities due to kinematic stance, weight bearing, and gait abnormalities resulting in mechanical burden to these joints.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative joint disease of bilateral ankles, Myositis of bilateral hips, Hallux valgus of bilateral feet, Nummular dermatitis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2020
- Citation
- 20072590
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.
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