The Veteran's claim for a higher initial disability rating for service-connected left knee degenerative joint disease, status post total knee replacement was denied by the Board. The appeal is based on the initial rating assigned following the expiration of a temporary 100 percent rating.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show more than slight limitation of motion (with reduced range of extension to, at worst, 10 degrees and a reduced range of flexion to, at worst, 10 degrees), with subjective complaints of pain, weakness, and stiffness. The schedular criteria were found adequate to evaluate the left knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee degenerative joint disease, status post total knee replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- June 17, 2015
- Citation
- 1525994
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