The Board granted service connection for right knee pain, finding it to be caused by the Veteran's service-connected mild degenerative arthritis thoracic spine disability.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion provided a persuasive nexus between the Veteran's right knee pain and his service-connected back condition, leading to the grant of service connection on a secondary basis.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 31, 2024
- Citation
- A24070572
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
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- Dismissed
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