The Veteran's left knee pain with tendonitis during service is considered a disability and productive of impairment in earning capacity, warranting service connection.
The deciding factor: Pain alone can serve as a functional impairment that qualifies as a disability, especially when it results in impairment in earning capacity.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee painful motion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 22, 2026
- Citation
- A26006093
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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.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal was dismissed because the Board Appeal request was not timely filed within one year of the rating decision, and no good cause for extension was presented.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, as there was no evidence of a current disability that warranted higher ratings or service connection.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the claims for initial ratings higher than 10 percent or compensable ratings for various disabilities due to premature Notice of Disagreement filings.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to a need for a new VA examination to assess the severity of the Veteran's left knee condition, as the current evidence does not fully comply with Correia v. McDonald.
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