The Board has granted a 30 percent rating for internal derangement of the left knee, status post traumatic patella dislocation and medial meniscectomy.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptoms more nearly approximated severe impairment of the left knee, warranting a 30 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 5257.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee status post traumatic patella dislocation, status post medial meniscectomy, buckling of posterior cruciate ligament
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 17, 2001
- Citation
- 0111115
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The claim to reopen service connection for a left knee disability is granted, and the issue of whether it is related to service is remanded.
- Granted
The Veteran's left knee disability was rated at 10 percent prior to June 20, 2007 and increased to 30 percent effective August 1, 2008.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for a left knee disorder, but remands it to allow for further development and consideration.
- Granted
The Board has restored the veteran's initial rating of 20 percent for his status post medial meniscectomy of the left knee, effective December 1, 2007. The claim for an increased rating for degenerative arthritis of the left knee is denied.
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