The veteran's right knee and low back disabilities are rated based on their specific conditions, with the right knee receiving a separate rating for arthritis. The low back disability is rated as 20 percent disabling.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports the current ratings given to the veteran's service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease, facet joint osteoarthropathy, mild spinal stenosis at L2/3, L3/4 and L4/5
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 25, 2001
- Citation
- 0123279
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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.
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- Granted
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