Knee Board decisions

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded to obtain additional medical opinions and evidence. The issues of service connection for psychiatric disorders, foot disorder, bilateral knee disorder, stomach disorder, and right arm disorder are all under consideration.

The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including verification of the Veteran's service dates and obtaining his complete service treatment records.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for reopening service connection for hyperlipidemia and for an increased rating for right knee patellofemoral syndrome, finding that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen the claim for hyperlipidemia and that the criteria for a higher evaluation were not met.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to the need for additional VA treatment records and a determination of his current disability severity. The issues of entitlement to service connection for shoulder pain, knee pain, and leg pain are also pending.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development of her claims, including obtaining updated treatment records and scheduling VA examinations.

The Board has determined that the Veteran's claims for diabetes mellitus, type II; bilateral knee disorder; and PTSD are not supported by credible evidence and therefore have been denied.

The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete verification of periods of active duty, ACDUTRA and INACDUTRA. The Veteran's left knee, cervical spine, lumbar spine, and left ankle conditions are all under review for service connection.

The Veteran's appeal was granted, with service connection established for PTSD and TBI. Bilateral hearing loss and conjunctivitis were also found to be related to service.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded to obtain additional medical records, arrange for VA examinations, and ensure that all due process requirements are met. The claims will be readjudicated after the completion of these actions.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim of service connection for a bilateral knee disorder in May 2004, finding no evidence of chronic disability during or within one year after service. The new and material evidence submitted since that time does not provide sufficient information to reopen the claim.

The Veteran's joint pains, including bilateral knee and shoulder pains, are found to be due to undiagnosed illness related to his service in the Persian Gulf War. The claims for genital warts, herpes, shingles with residuals of nerve and joint pains, and broken ribs were denied as there is no evidence of current disabilities or a connection to service.

The Veteran's recurrent left ankle sprain is caused by the neurological manifestations of his service-connected back disability, and thus he has a separate disability that is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected condition. The Board finds in favor of granting service connection for this left ankle disability.

The Veteran's right and left knee disabilities have been rated based on limitation of motion, with no higher ratings warranted due to the lack of evidence supporting more severe limitations such as ankylosis or instability.,Pseudofolliculitis barbae has been rated in accordance with its manifestations, with a 50 percent rating prior to March 20, 2012 and no higher rating since that date.

The Veteran's claims for increased ratings for his right and left knee disabilities, as well as degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, were granted. The initial ratings assigned are 10 percent for each knee strain and a combined rating of 20 percent for the low back disability.

The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection were denied. The right knee disability is currently rated as 10 percent disabling, effective May 25, 2000.

The Veteran's appeal for increased ratings for his service-connected left hip, left ankle, right knee, and left knee disabilities was denied. The VA found that the current ratings adequately reflected the severity of these conditions.

The Veteran's service-connected left knee disabilities are severe enough to prevent him from securing and maintaining substantially gainful employment.

The Board has granted service connection for low back, right knee, and right ankle disabilities as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected left foot disabilities. A temporary total rating (TTR) for one month following October 30, 2009 surgery on the left foot is also granted.

The Veteran's appeal is remanded for further development, including obtaining medical records and scheduling VA examinations to assess his hearing loss disability and knee disabilities.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining updated medical records and scheduling VA examinations to assess the current severity of his right ankle disability, onychomycosis, and right knee disability.