The Veteran is unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation due to his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities, which prevent him from performing his previous work as an instrumentation technician.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's bilateral knee disabilities preclude him from continuing his work as an instrumentation technician and severely limit his ability to perform sedentary work.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative joint disease of the left knee, Left total knee arthroplasty, Right total knee arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- May 31, 2018
- Citation
- 18106760
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