The Board denied separate compensable evaluations for right knee conditions and service connection for a left knee disability. The Veteran's left knee condition is now granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner provided negative nexus opinions based on the absence of evidence of chronic left knee symptoms in service, despite documented complaints of left knee pain.
- Claimed conditions
- dislocated semilunar cartilage, symptomatic removal of semilunar cartilage, left knee meniscal tear and osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 27, 2022
- Citation
- 22042740
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a left hip disability as secondary to right knee meniscal tear and osteoarthritis. The claims for bilateral hearing loss, right knee meniscal tear and osteoarthritis (claimed as right knee injury in a fall), and left knee meniscal tear and osteoarthritis (claimed as left knee chronic pain) are remanded due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted a rating of 20 percent for the right knee disability and a separate 10 percent rating for symptomatic removal of semilunar cartilage, subject to the statutes and regulations governing the award of monetary payments.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted increased ratings for the service-connected left knee osteoarthritis, left and right knee instability, and left and right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy in certain periods, while denying increased ratings in other periods.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The veteran is granted a 10% disability rating for symptomatic removal of semilunar cartilage. The veteran's claims for increased ratings for right knee limitation of flexion and extension are denied, but the claim for total disability based on individual unemployability is remanded.
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