The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for her right knee internal derangement with medial meniscus injuries and arthritis, painful scars of the right knee, and limitation of flexion has been granted. The Veteran is currently receiving a separate 30 percent rating for each condition.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s service-connected conditions have resulted in functional impairment that warrants the highest available ratings under applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- nonlinear scars, painful scars, right knee internal derangement with medial meniscus injuries and arthritis, right knee instability, right knee limitation of flexion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19188782
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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.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection for bilateral knee instability and denied service connection for right and left knee instability, finding no nexus between the Veteran's knee conditions and his service or service-connected disabilities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to increased ratings for a thoracolumbar spine disorder and bilateral knee disorders due to the need for additional VA examinations.
- Partly granted
The Board denied an increased rating for right knee strain and instability but granted a separate 10 percent rating for right knee limitation of extension from November 25, 2024.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including left foot condition, right foot condition, cellulitis, right ear hearing loss, and right lower extremity radiculopathy. The appeal of the proposal to reduce a 40 percent evaluation for lumbosacral strain was dismissed.
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