The Board has granted service connection for bilateral internal knee derangement and knee strain. The appeals for cervical spine disability, fibrocystic breast disease, and hearing loss disability have been withdrawn by the veteran's authorized representative.
The deciding factor: Veteran withdrew appeal for cervical spine, fibrocystic breast disease, and hearing loss disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral internal knee derangement, knee strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0624566
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's right knee disability, finding that his current condition is related to an in-service injury.
- Denied
The Veteran's right knee disability, which includes patellar tendinitis, knee strain, and low grade femorotibial chondromalacia, was currently rated at 10 percent. The Board denied a higher rating as the evidence did not show flexion limitation greater than 80 degrees.
- Granted
The Board granted an initial 30 percent rating for the Veteran's left knee condition, effective from June 28, 2018. The decision is based on limitation of extension of the left knee.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to a concurrent election of review options, which is not permissible under the Appeals Modernization Act framework.
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