The Board has determined that the Veteran's claimed right and left knee disabilities are not related to service, and therefore denied his claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found no medical evidence linking the current knee conditions to service, including shrapnel wounds during active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a shrapnel wound to the right knee, right knee muscle pain, residuals of a shrapnel wound to the left knee, left knee muscle pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2022
- Citation
- 22049040
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