The veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining medical records and providing the veteran with a VA examination to assess his right knee disability and any arthritis of the hips, legs, or low back. The RO will also determine if the current 20% rating for the right knee should be reduced.
The deciding factor: The appeal is being remanded due to changes in the law regarding veterans' claims assistance and because there are unresolved issues related to the veteran's service-connected right knee disability and any arthritis of his hips, legs, or low back.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the hips, arthritis of the legs, arthritis of the low back
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- January 17, 2001
- Citation
- 0101239
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for various conditions including bilateral shoulder arthritis, bilateral hearing loss, neck pain, arthritis of the low back, and right hand arthritis due to inconsistencies in his statements regarding the onset and chronicity of symptoms.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for all the claimed conditions as there was no evidence of a current diagnosis or etiological relationship to active duty service.
- Denied
The appeal for a compensable rating for right ear hearing loss was denied, and the appeals for service connection for arthritis of the hips, sleep apnea, respiratory condition (including asthma), and tinnitus were dismissed.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claims for an acquired psychiatric disability, a sleep disorder, type two diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, vertigo, hypertension, migraine headaches, arthritis of various joints, and kidney disease.
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