The VA has granted the veteran's claims for service connection and assigned a 10 percent rating for each knee, effective November 1997. The right knee is currently rated at 10 percent due to slight limitation of motion, while the left knee also receives this same rating.
The deciding factor: The VA found that the veteran's bilateral knee degenerative changes meet the criteria for a 10 percent disability evaluation based on noncompensable flexion limitations.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Changes, Right Knee, Degenerative Changes, Left Knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 10, 2001
- Citation
- 0120527
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