The Board denied service connection for a mental health disability and a rating in excess of 10 percent for right knee tendinitis, but granted service connection for lumbosacral strain.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the lack of evidence showing a current mental health disability or sufficient limitation of flexion to warrant a higher rating for the right knee. However, there is a finding that the Veteran's lumbosacral strain resulted from changes in his gait caused by symptoms of his service-connected right knee tendinitis.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain (claimed as low back condition), mental health disability, right knee tendinitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25030265
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 696 · Granted: 63% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection of right knee tendinitis, left knee tendinitis, and chronic right wrist sprain have been granted.,New evidence submitted by the Veteran has led to a readjudication of his previously denied claims.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for left and right knee tendinitis due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error. The AOJ must obtain an addendum opinion addressing whether the Veteran's bilateral knee disabilities are aggravated by his service-connected lumbosacral and thoracic strain.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for increased ratings for right and left knee disabilities due to pre-decisional errors in obtaining retrospective opinions considering functional loss without the ameliorative effects of medication.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for an increased rating for her lumbosacral strain (claimed as low back condition) is being remanded due to a duty to assist error. The Board will obtain a supplemental opinion regarding the ameliorative effects of medication on her service-connected condition.
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