The Veteran's right knee meniscectomy and osteoarthritis have been granted service connection, with a current rating of 10 percent for each condition.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on the documented history of injury during service and subsequent surgical intervention. The current ratings are within the applicable diagnostic codes for knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Meniscus Injury, Osteoarthritis of Right Knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 5, 2015
- Citation
- 1524121
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- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's current right and left shoulder disabilities, as well as his right knee disability and left knee disability, are related to injuries sustained during service. As such, these conditions have been granted service connection.
- Denied
The Board found no CUE in the June 1970 rating decision that granted service connection for a wound, right leg with residuals of thrombophlebitis. The Veteran's claim for service connection for osteoarthritis of the right knee was not addressed because it was reasonable to conclude based on the evidence at the time that he did not have a current right knee disability related to his punji stick injury.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's right knee disability, including osteoarthritis and a meniscus injury, was not incurred in or aggravated by active military service. The preexisting condition of a right knee arthroscopic surgery is considered to have existed prior to service and did not increase in severity during service. Osteoarthritis is deemed the natural progression of the pre-existing right knee injury/treatment combined with post-service obesity and occupational bending.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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