Va Rating For Knee Weakness

60 extremely unfavorable in flexion at an angle of 45 degrees or more.

Va rating for knee weakness. Moderately severe residuals of weakness pain or limitation of motion 50. Rating 5313 Group XIII. Injuries to the Bones of the Lower Leg. If the residuals are chronic the rating will be 60.

Weakness such as to require the use of crutches 901. If the pain is not severe but does limit the veterans range of motion then it is rated under diagnostic code 5256 5261 or 5262 based on the residual symptomology. With chronic residuals consisting of severe painful motion or weakness in the affected extremity. For one 1 year after your partial or total knee replacement you should be rated at 100.

After that the VA can rate in one of 2 ways. Extension of hip and flexion of knee. Prosthetic replacement of knee joint. The VASRD offers ratings for the following musculoskeletal conditions of Knee and Lower Leg.

Too Much Motion or Dislocation Instability Musculoskeletal Diseases. With intermediate degrees of residual weakness pain or limitation of motion rate by analogy to diagnostic. Knee and Lower Leg Ratings. Abnormal stiffening and immobility of the knee can be assigned a 30 40 50 or 60 percent disability rating depending on the limitation of flexion.

A 60 rating will be assigned when there is weakness and severe pain with motion. Acting with rectus femoris and sartorius see XIV 1 2 synchronizing simultaneous flexion of hip and knee and extension of hip and knee by belt-over-pulley action at knee joint. As a result regional offices around the country provide rating of only 10 to 20. Extremely unfavorable in flexion at an angle of 45 or more.

5055 Knee replacement prosthesis. If you suffer from Phantom Limb Pain PLP you may try to get a higher rating. Rating 5256 Knee ankylosis of. Recurrent subluxation or lateral instability.

Loss of UseAmputation of the Knee and Lower Leg. Following implantation of prosthesis 70. The VA is supposed to rate a knee disability under DC 5260 and 5261 where functional loss begins. These 40 and 60 ratings related only to the point of amputation.

The rating criteria is as follows. If there is weakness and severe pain with motion then the veterans knee condition is rated at 60 percent. If the pain is not severe but you have limited range of motion in your knee your knee will be rated according to the criteria set forth for limitation of flexion andor limitation of extension. Many veterans with knee disability are unable to maintain gainful employment and yet they cannot apply for unemployability because their disabling condition is rated as only 20.

The VA rating for knee amputations is either 40 if there still some knee function or 60 if the knee is removed or unusable. Markedly severe residual weakness pain or limitation of motion. Posterior thigh group Hamstring complex of 2-joint muscles. Outward and inward rotation of flexed knee.

Prosthetic replacement of the shoulder joint. Common Knee Conditions Rated by VA Ankylosis of the Knee DC 5256. This is because of the so-called amputation rule. As you can see from the rating schedules below the highest possible schedular disability rating for any given lower leg condition is 40 percent and the highest possible schedular rating for a knee impairment is 60 percent.

Limitation of Motion of the Knee.