The Board found that the claim of service connection for a right knee disability is well grounded. The RO was instructed to schedule an orthopedic examination and consider applying VA regulations regarding service connection, evaluations, and staged ratings.
The deciding factor: The examiner should provide an opinion as to whether it is at least as likely as not that the veteran's current right knee symptomatology can be attributed to service or to the service-connected left knee disability. It should also indicate whether any right knee disability is made worse by left knee disability, and if so, to what extent.
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee chondromalacia with degenerative changes, Left knee degenerative meniscus tear
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- April 12, 2000
- Citation
- 0009743
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What this means for you
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- Granted
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- Granted
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