The Back, Knee, and Joint Workbook
Fillable worksheets to organize and prepare your own musculoskeletal claim.
A joint claim is rated on what the joint can no longer do, so these pages help you put the bad days on paper before the exam lands on a good one.
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About this workbook
Fillable worksheets for a back, knee, hip, shoulder, or ankle claim. Find your diagnostic code, log flare-ups and incapacitating episodes, build the link to service, describe lost function, check your exam against Correia and Sharp, and choose a review lane.
Worksheets inside
- Name Your Condition and Find Its Code
- Which Rating Method Fits
- Records Inventory and Timeline
- Flare-Up and Episode Tracker
- Build Your Nexus to Service
- Your Functional Loss Statement
- Assemble and File
- C&P Exam Prep
- Review the Exam Report
- If Denied or Rated Low: Choose the Lane
Which one do you need?
- The free field guide (Filing a Back, Knee, or Joint Claim) walks you through the task, step by step. It's free on this site.
- The book (VA Back, Knee, and Joint Claims Guide) explains the whole subject in depth, with the reasons behind each rule.
- This workbook is where you do the work: fillable pages that keep your records, dates and notes in one file, in order.
You don't need all three. The free guide is enough to do the steps. The workbook is for people who want it organized in one place.
Details
- Fillable PDF, US Letter, 14 pages, 138 fillable fields
- Fill it on screen in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, or print it and write by hand
- Current as of October 2026
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J. Erickson
Author, educator, former veteran service officer.
J. Erickson is a service-disabled Air Force veteran. He served as a military firefighter and as a veteran service officer, where he spent years walking veterans through the same claims process he writes about now. He holds an MBA and writes plain-language guides for veterans who want to understand the system without a translator.
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