The Board has determined that the veteran's total left knee replacement is currently rated at 30 percent and does not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show severe painful motion or weakness, ankylosis of the knee, or marked malunion or nonunion of tibia and fibula impairment that would warrant a higher rating under applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- Total Left Knee Replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- October 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0631082
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Decisions by this judge: 1,710 · Granted: 15% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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