The Board has determined that an initial 10 percent evaluation is warranted for the residuals of stress fractures of both legs, effective from the date of service connection.
The deciding factor: The veteran's bilateral stress fractures have resolved and do not currently result in any functional impairment or limitation of motion. The medical evidence shows degenerative joint disease (DJD) of the knees without ankylosis, subluxation, instability, dislocation, or genu recurvatum.
- Claimed conditions
- stress fracture of the right leg, stress fracture of the left leg
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 4, 2008
- Citation
- 0818331
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