The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a right knee injury, finding that there is no current clinical diagnosis of a right knee disability and that any associated pain does not rise to the level of a disability under Saunders v. Wilkie.
The deciding factor: The March 2019 VA examination report revealed the Veteran had right knee initial range of motion on flexion from zero to 140 degrees and extension from 140 degrees to zero degrees with no pain noted, indicating that any associated right knee pain does not rise to a level constituting a disability.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19162630
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