The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a right knee disorder as there was no evidence of a current disability, in-service incurrence or aggravation of an injury or disease, and medical evidence of a nexus between the current disability and the in-service disease or injury.
The deciding factor: Service connection is not warranted because the veteran does not have a current right knee disorder, there is no evidence of in-service incurrence or aggravation of a right knee disorder, and there is no medical evidence linking any current right knee disorder to service.
- Claimed conditions
- tendonitis of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 3, 2008
- Citation
- 0811071
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- Denied
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- Granted
The Veteran's appeals for increased ratings for his service-connected left foot disorder, low back disorder, tendonitis of the right knee, and bilateral hearing loss were granted. The initial evaluations assigned prior to February 8, 2007, for left foot disorder are 20 percent; beginning February 8, 2007, they are 10 percent. For low back disorder, the initial evaluation is 30 percent beginning March 31, 2011. The right knee tendonitis initially received a noncompensable evaluation and then a 10 percent evaluation beginning March 11, 2008; it remains at a noncompensable evaluation for hearing loss.
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