The Board has granted service connection for right knee arthritis and assigned a rating of 10 percent effective from April 8, 2015. The Veteran's right knee disability is currently rated as 10 percent disabling due to limitation of motion.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s right knee disability was manifested by flexion limited to 95 degrees (out of the normal 140 degrees), but not more nearly approximating a greater degree of limitation – even when considering the effect of his pain on his range of motion. The most probative evidence is against finding that he had additional right knee disability owing to lateral instability, recurrent subluxation, ankylosis, dislocated cartilage, removal of semilunar cartilage, malunion of the tibia and fibula, or genu recurvatum.
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee arthritis, status post strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 21, 2020
- Citation
- 20080220
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
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a left foot disability (other than callosities) and a right hip disability, as well as increased ratings for an acquired psychiatric disorder, bilateral foot disability prior to July 6, 2020, lumbar spine disability, right knee instability prior to October 2, 2019, and left knee instability. However, it denied increased ratings for the bilateral foot disability since July 26, 2020, right knee arthritis, left knee arthritis, and right knee instability since October 2, 2019.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board is remanding the matters for clarification from the private examiner as to whether a goniometer was used, and will defer further adjudication until such clarification is provided.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's requests for extensions of time to file Board Appeal requests were denied, and the attempted appeals were dismissed.
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