The Board has granted a separate compensable rating of 10 percent for right knee instability.,The Veteran's back disability is currently rated as 40 percent disabling.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations provided sufficient explanations and the Veteran did not report any flare-ups related to his back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Tibial Plateau Contusion, Degenerative Disc Disease of the Back
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 25, 2020
- Citation
- 20014471
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