The Veteran's right knee disability, including limitation of motion and degenerative joint disease, is rated at 30 percent. A separate 10 percent rating for a symptomatic meniscectomy is granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examination findings supported the current 30 percent rating based on limitation of flexion, with no higher rating warranted due to pain or flare-ups. The Veteran's right knee does not meet criteria for a higher rating under DC 5261. A separate 10 percent rating is granted for symptomatic meniscectomy.
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee limitation of motion, Degenerative joint disease, Right knee meniscectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 9, 2020
- Citation
- 20001966
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.
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