The Board has granted service connection for various knee, hip, ankle, back, neck, and elbow disabilities. A 10 percent disability rating is also granted for headaches.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of bilateral knee, hip, ankle, back, neck, and elbow disabilities were directly related to injuries sustained during active service.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee patellofemoral syndrome (PFS), left knee PFS, functionally impairing right hip disability, functionally impairing left hip disability, functionally impairing right ankle disability, functionally impairing left ankle disability, functionally impairing back disability, functionally impairing neck disability, functionally impairing left elbow disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 4, 2023
- Citation
- 23025728
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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.
- Granted
The Veteran's left knee instability is rated at 20 percent effective June 6, 2024. The right knee disability remains rated at 10 percent.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for multiple conditions, including spondylolisthesis or segmental instability (DJD spondylolisthesis L-5 S1), radiculopathy of the sciatic nerve, paralysis of the ulnar nerve, acromioclavicular joint arthritis, left ankle tendonitis, right knee patellofemoral syndrome, left knee patellofemoral syndrome, bilateral feet with plantar fasciitis, fibromyalgia, pituitary macroadenoma, diabetes mellitus type II, and renal failure.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding no evidence of current disabilities or functional impairment.
- Partly granted
The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's right and left knee conditions but granted a separate 10 percent rating for left knee instability effective April 20, 2023.
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