The Board has granted the veteran's claim for service connection for loss of motion of the right knee with a 30 percent evaluation effective March 15, 1988. The rating for postoperative residuals of a right knee injury remains at 30 percent and is retroactively applied to March 15, 1988.
The deciding factor: The veteran's claim was granted as service connection was established with the appropriate evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative residuals of a right knee injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 11, 2004
- Citation
- 0403900
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Decisions by this judge: 999 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his right knee conditions, finding that the evidence did not support higher evaluations.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for a new VA examination to assess the severity of the Veteran's right knee disability, as the previous examination lacked sufficient detail regarding pain and functional loss.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's current right knee disability is not aggravated by his military service, and thus denied his claim for service connection.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed all the issues on appeal due to the death of the appellant.
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