The Board has ordered a VA examination to determine the nature, extent and etiology of any left lower extremity disability found in the veteran's case. The appeal is remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The examiner must provide an opinion as to whether it is at least as likely as not that the veteran has a left knee or other left lower extremity disability causally related to active military service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a left lower extremity injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 19, 2005
- Citation
- 0511156
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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.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's current left lower extremity disability is not related to his service and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to the need for a VA orthopedic examination and additional development of the record.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the appellant's claims for service connection for defective hearing, tinnitus, residuals of a head injury, headaches, and residuals of a left lower extremity injury are not well-grounded as there is no competent evidence showing these conditions had their onset during or were otherwise related to military service.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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