Granted
The Board granted service connection for spinal stenosis as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral knee total arthroplasty.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion provided significant probative weight in establishing a nexus between the Veteran's spinal stenosis and his service-connected bilateral knee conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- spinal stenosis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25090257
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