The Board has granted a 10 percent rating for posttraumatic arthritis of the right knee effective to the date of claim, and denied any higher ratings based on instability or additional limitation of motion.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a finding of more than mild instability or additional functional loss due to pain that would warrant a higher rating under Diagnostic Codes 5257 (instability) or 5003 (arthritis).
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee posttraumatic arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0614296
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