The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including degenerative joint disease of the right knee and residuals of fractured right femur, do not warrant a higher evaluation. The TDIU rating was denied as his service-connected disabilities do not preclude him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The veteran's right knee disability is evaluated based on limitation of motion, which does not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation under applicable diagnostic codes. His residuals of fractured right femur have manifested in complaints of pain but not in malunion of the femur with moderate hip disability.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease, right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 17, 2006
- Citation
- 0610976
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