Va Rating For Meniscus Pain

Fibromyalgia With widespread musculoskeletal pain and tender points with or without associated fatigue sleep disturbance stiffness paresthesias headache irritable bowel.

Va rating for meniscus pain. Diagnostic Code 5258 If the cartilage frequently dislocates causing pain swelling and locking in the knee it receives a 20 percent rating. Worse than 40 but not quite 100 incapacitated with weight loss and anemia due to the long term affects and incapacitated 4 times a year or more. You also might feel a block to knee motion and have trouble extending your knee fully. The 20 pct and 10 pct ratings based on X-ray findings above will not be utilized in rating conditions listed under diagnostic codes 5013 to 5024 inclusive.

Rating 5000 Osteomyelitis acute subacute or chronic. Conservative treatment such as rest ice and medication is sometimes enough to relieve the pain of a torn meniscus and give the injury time to heal on its own. 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. VA assigns a 0 10 20 or 30 percent disability rating for this knee pain condition based on the amount of instability present in the knee.

The VA rating for knee amputations is either 40 if there still some knee function or 60 if the knee is removed or unusable. Or other symptom combinations productive of severe impairment of health. With two or more of the symptoms for the 30 percent evaluation of less severity. A 60 VA Rating for GERD is warranted when there are symptoms of pain vomiting material weight loss and hematemesis or melena with moderate anemia.

If you suffer from Phantom Limb Pain PLP you may try to get a higher rating. With severe instability Diagnostic Code 5257 should be used to assign an additional 30 rating. The VA uses the rules of the VASRD to rate knee and lower leg conditions based on pain limited motion damage to the bones diseases like arthritis etc. Diagnostic Code 5003-5260 or 5010-5260 should be used to assign a non-compensable rating for functional loss of use.

A torn meniscus causes pain swelling and stiffness. However because the pain impedes the use of the knee at a 10 compensable level a rating of 10 would be appropriate. For example if a veteran had a meniscectomy and now has pain swelling and flexion limited to 45 degrees he is entitled to a 10 rating under DC 5260 for limitation of flexion and 10 under DC 5259 for pain and swelling. Ankylosis of the Knee Diagnostic Code 5256.

Clear impairments to daily living and health diagnosed by a doctor or 3 or more incapacitating episodes a year. One or two painful flare-ups a year. However this reading of the rating schedule is inconsistent. For VA compensation purposes normal forward flexion of the.

In order to get the highest evaluation the knee must be so unstable that it gives out or dislocates on a regular basis. These 40 and 60 ratings related only to the point of amputation. However VA generally rates a torn meniscus under one of two Diagnostic Codes. Arthritis degenerative hypertrophic or osteoarthritis.

The Department of Veterans Affairs says of this condition that when established via X-rays the VA disability rating will be made on the basis of limitation of motion under the appropriate diagnostic codes for the specific joint or joints involved. Check out our Knee and Lower Leg Conditions Ratings page for the exact codes and ratings. With widespread musculoskeletal pain and tender points with or without associated fatigue sleep disturbance stiffness paresthesias headache irritable bowel symptoms depression anxiety or Raynauds-like symptoms.