The Board has granted service connection for right knee enthesopathy and bilateral wrist disorders, finding that the Veteran's conditions are related to his military service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a nexus between the Veteran's current diagnoses of right knee enthesopathy and bilateral wrist disorders and his in-service injuries and duties.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee enthesopathy, bilateral wrist disorders (including right and left wrists)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2023
- Citation
- 23061652
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's current right knee enthesopathy is related to service, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases due to inadequate compliance with previous remand directives regarding the Veteran's right knee enthesopathy and osteoarthritis, as well as his right ankle sprain.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has found insufficient evidence of the Veteran's current right knee and ankle functioning to adjudicate his claims for higher evaluations at this time, and thus remands the matter for additional medical examination.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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