The Board has granted service connection for a left knee disability, diagnosed as degenerative joint disease (DJD), finding that the Veteran's service-connected low back disability proximately caused his left knee disability.
The deciding factor: Expert evidence established a link between the Veteran’s left knee disability and his service-connected low back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee DJD
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2020
- Citation
- 20073942
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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for multiple degenerative joint diseases of the right and left wrist, knee, shoulder, elbow, and hip, including as secondary to a lumbar spine disability.
- Partly granted
The veteran's claim for a higher rating for right breast abscess was denied. Service connection was granted for GERD, right hip DJD, left hip bursitis with DJD, right knee DJD, left knee DJD, sinusitis, overactive bladder disability, tension headache disability, right ankle disability, and left ankle disability. Claims for CFS, heat exhaustion, hemorrhoids, irritable colon syndrome, and skin disability were denied.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew all issues on appeal, so the Board dismissed them.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for lumbar spine degenerative disc disease as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral knee disabilities and denied higher ratings for various knee conditions.
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