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CITATION-FIRST
Every factual claim returns with a source. No citation, no answer.
Answers any question about VA disability law with a source citation attached to every claim — no hallucination, no uncited inference.
Knee flexion is rated under Diagnostic Code 5260. Compensable ratings begin at 45° of flexion.
Flexion limited to 45° rates 10%; 30° rates 20%; 15° rates 30%.
Pain-on-motion may warrant the minimum compensable rating per Mitchell v. Shinseki (25 Vet.App. 32).
cited assistant runs hybrid retrieval against the 38 cfr corpus, a reranked shortlist of regulation and case excerpts, and a dual-model verify pass. responses without corpus support above a similarity threshold are blocked at the rail.