The Board has granted service connection for right and left knee patellofemoral syndrome, effective May 12, 2006. The Veteran is now assigned a 10 percent rating for each knee disability.
The deciding factor: The VA examination confirmed the presence of cartilage injury in both knees without instability or other significant functional impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee cartilage injury, right knee cartilage injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 11, 2011
- Citation
- 1129845
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What this means for you
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