The Board has granted a 10 percent rating for the service-connected left knee disability, effective from June 1, 2004.
The deciding factor: The veteran's left knee disability is manifested by pain, tenderness, crepitation, and degenerative joint disease with full extension to 0 degrees and flexion limited to 120 degrees with pain. The RO assigned a temporary total rating based on surgical treatment necessitating convalescence from April 16, 2004 to May 31, 2004, followed by a 10 percent rating for the period after that.
- Claimed conditions
- status post-operative left knee patello-femoral syndrome with defect lateral condyle, degenerative joint disease, chondromalacia (left knee disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 31, 2007
- Citation
- 0741032
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