The Board denied the Veteran's claims for increased ratings for his right knee and right hand disabilities, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating under applicable criteria.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's disability picture did not warrant a higher rating after considering all relevant factors, including pain on motion and functional loss due to flare-ups, but noting that the current ratings already account for non-compensable degrees of limitation of motion verified by objective evidence of symptoms such as painful motion.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee plica syndrome, right hand posttraumatic arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25031318
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,272 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased evaluations for his service-connected right knee disabilities due to a failure to provide adequate notice under 38 U.S.C. § 5104.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that there has not been substantial compliance with its previous remand directives and, as such, another remand is required for the Veteran's claims of right shoulder rotator cuff tear, lumbar spine degenerative joint disease with degenerative disc disease, right knee plica syndrome, and hypertension.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for right hand posttraumatic arthritis, finding that the Veteran's current disability is due to an in-service injury and continuity of symptoms since then.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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