The Board has restored a 10 percent rating for the service-connected residuals of right knee surgery and assigned a 20 percent rating for arthritis of the right knee with limitation of motion. The veteran's chronic headaches are rated at 30 percent.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the veteran's right knee disability had undergone material improvement, while his chronic headaches were shown to be completely prostrating and producing severe economic inadaptability.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease of the Right Knee, Chronic Headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 10, 2003
- Citation
- 0334383
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