The Board has granted a 30 percent rating for post-operative residuals of right knee injury with laxity, effective from the date of the decision. The veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection have been addressed.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the assignment of a 30 percent rating based on severe impairment of the right knee, including mechanical symptoms such as crepitance, locking, and chronic effusion.
- Claimed conditions
- vertigo, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 18, 2006
- Citation
- 0601547
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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- Denied
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- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for vertigo and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to insufficient evidence linking his current condition to active service or any incident of service.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's tinnitus is granted, while fibromyalgia, internal or external hemorrhoids, bilateral hearing loss, and neuropathy are denied.
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