The Board has granted separate 10 percent evaluations for each knee based on limitation of motion and arthritis with periarticular pathology productive of painful motion. The preponderance of the evidence is against a finding that the veteran's right and left knees have any more than slight instability, thus they are no more than 10 percent disabling based upon instability.
The deciding factor: The August 2000 and January 2002 VA examinations found both knees to be stable on various stressing tests and with negative McMurray's sign. The collateral and cruciate ligaments and the patellaes were also stated to be stable in both knees.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Injury, Left Knee Injury
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 30, 2005
- Citation
- 0526739
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What this means for you
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- Granted
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