The veteran's right knee Osgood-Schlatter's disease was rated as 10 percent disabling prior to December 12, 2007, and the rating remained at 10 percent from that date.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed x-ray evidence of early arthritic changes with noncompensable limitation of motion, which warranted a 10 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 5003 for arthritis established by x-ray findings.
- Claimed conditions
- restrictive ventilatory impairment, right knee Osgood-Schlatter's disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 9, 2008
- Citation
- 0815453
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Decisions by this judge: 1,500 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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