Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for a compensable rating for his right knee scar and bilateral hearing loss, and remanded the claims for service connection for intervertebral disc syndrome of the lumbar spine as secondary to Osgood-Schlatter's disease of the right knee and left knee patellar tendinitis as due to the same.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a compensable rating for the Veteran's right knee scar or bilateral hearing loss, and an adequate VA opinion was not obtained regarding the theories of secondary service connection for his back and left knee conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- linear anterior right knee scar, residual of ossicle excision, bilateral hearing loss, intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS) of lumbar spine, left knee patellar tendinitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25020137
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