The Board has granted service connection for the veteran's cervical spine osteophytes with radiculopathy and has assigned a 20% rating. The ratings for the right knee, left knee, hypertension, and low back condition are all in accordance with current regulations.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations provided evidence of moderate limitation of motion and degenerative changes in multiple joints, which supported the granted ratings.
- Claimed conditions
- left eye disability, left ankle disability, hypertension, residuals of right knee anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with degenerative changes, residuals of high tibial osteotomy of left knee with degenerative changes, osteophytes of cervical spine with radiculopathy, low back condition including disc bulge
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- October 12, 2001
- Citation
- 0124564
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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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