The Board has granted service connection for right foot pain, left foot pain, right knee pain, and left knee pain as secondary to obesity caused by the Veteran's service-connected benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's bilateral foot and knee disabilities were caused by his service-connected BPPV disability with obesity acting as an intermediate step.
- Claimed conditions
- Right foot pain, Left foot pain, Right knee pain, Left knee pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2024
- Citation
- A24067778
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,135 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Denied
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