The Board has determined that the Veteran's right and left knee disabilities are aggravated by his service-connected lumbosacral spine disability, warranting a grant of service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations and medical opinions provided evidence supporting the aggravation of the Veteran's knee disabilities due to his service-connected lumbar spine disability.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee meniscal tear, left knee meniscal tear, bilateral knee osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- January 25, 2018
- Citation
- 1805004
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 10 percent for right knee meniscal tear with degenerative arthritis and granted a separate 20 percent rating for right knee instability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for increased ratings for lumbosacral strain, left knee strain, and meniscal tear, as well as a compensable rating for a left knee scar, to obtain new examinations that adequately address the Veteran's reported symptoms.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a higher rating for right knee strain to ensure that the estimated range of motion provided for repeated use over time and during flare-ups is sufficient for rating purposes.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeals for earlier effective dates related to various left and right hip, knee, shoulder, and other conditions as they were freestanding claims not continuously pursued from the initial rating decisions.
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