The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected right knee and ankle disabilities, finding no competent evidence to support secondary service connection for right arm and elbow conditions. The right knee disability is rated as 30 percent disabling due to severe instability or lateral subluxation.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not provide sufficient credible evidence to substantiate the veteran's claims of secondary service connection for his right arm and elbow conditions, nor was there sufficient evidence to support a separate rating for arthritis in the right knee.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Condition, Right Ankle Sprain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 9, 2000
- Citation
- 0012150
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