The Board granted service connection for a low back disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected left knee disorder and assigned an initial 30 percent disability rating for onychomycosis of the feet, but denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The favorable March 2024 VA medical opinion supported a finding that the Veteran's low back disorder is proximately due to his service-connected left knee disorder. The evidence does not support an earlier effective date as there were no formal or informal communications requesting service connection for onychomycosis of the feet prior to September 19, 2017.
- Claimed conditions
- thoracolumbar spondylosis (low back disorder), onychomycosis of the feet
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25098754
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