The Veteran's service-connected bilateral knee scars and status post total left knee arthroplasty are granted with specific disability ratings.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran experienced painful motion in his knees, which led to a grant of increased disability ratings for both conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee scars, status post total left knee arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 26, 2020
- Citation
- 20021728
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to increased ratings for the service-connected left and right knee disabilities, as well as the issues of entitlement to a TDIU due to service-connected disability and special monthly compensation (SMC), to include based on the regular need for the aid and attendance of another person or on account of being housebound.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for sleep apnea and bilateral hip arthritis, but denied service connection for bilateral shoulder arthritis. The decision also denied increased ratings for knee disabilities and a compensable rating for PFB.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for status post total right and left knee arthroplasty.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has granted TDIU prior to October 1, 2023, but the case is remanded for extraschedular consideration of TDIU from October 1, 2023.
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