The Board granted service connection for ED, GERD, left hip disability, right hip disability, left knee disability, right knee disability, and lumbar disability as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected left ankle disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence was at least in equipoise as to whether each of these disabilities were proximately due to the Veteran's service-connected left ankle disability, leading to a grant of service connection for all conditions on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- Erectile Dysfunction (ED), Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Left Hip Degenerative Arthritis with Femoral Acetabular Impingement Syndrome, Right Hip Femoral Acetabular Impingement Syndrome, Left Knee Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, Right Knee Degenerative Arthritis, Thoracolumbar Spine Degenerative Arthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 6, 2024
- Citation
- A24072560
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.
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