The veteran's bilateral Osgood-Schlatter's disease warrants assignment of a compensable, separate 10 percent evaluation for the left knee and a compensable, separate 10 percent evaluation for the right knee prior to September 20, 2004, but no higher evaluation for either knee or additional compensable evaluation for either knee is warranted prior to that date.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence demonstrates some instability of the right knee as early as September 20, 2004, but there is no objective medical evidence of instability, locking, subluxation, or giving way of the left knee prior to that date.
- Claimed conditions
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease, right knee, Osgood-Schlatter's disease, left knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2008
- Citation
- 0809922
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's Osgood-Schlatter's disease, right knee is granted service connection. The left knee condition remains under review and remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection and increased ratings due to outstanding treatment records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral knee disabilities, specifically Osgood-Schlatter's disease, need to be re-evaluated due to a lack of recent VA treatment records and an incomplete examination. The case is being remanded for further evaluation.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's Osgood-Schlatter's disease, right knee, with chondromalacia of the patella is due to service and has been aggravated by service. As a result, service connection for these conditions is granted.
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