The Veteran's left knee disability, including meniscal cartilage involvement and popliteal nerve entrapment, is rated at 20 percent. Service connection for a left hip disability is denied. A TDIU on an extra-schedular basis is granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports the grant of a separate rating for meniscal cartilage involvement in the left knee, warranting a 20% rating under Diagnostic Code 5258.
- Claimed conditions
- Tendonitis, Osgood-Schlatter's disease, Degenerative joint disease (left knee), Meniscal cartilage involvement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- January 7, 2021
- Citation
- 21001100
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