The veteran's right knee disability is rated at 10 percent, and his claims for stomach condition, PTSD, bacterial infection, and reopening of service connection claims are all granted.
The deciding factor: The VA determined that the veteran's right knee disability meets the criteria for a 10 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 5257 (other impairment of the knee with recurrent subluxation or lateral instability).
- Claimed conditions
- right patellofemoral syndrome, chondromalacia of patella
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 27, 2005
- Citation
- 0534743
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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
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and granted service connection for radiculopathy of the bilateral lower extremities as secondary to her service-connected lumbosacral strain.
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