The Board has remanded the case for further development due to insufficient medical evidence to decide whether the veteran is permanently and totally disabled from obtaining and retaining substantially gainful employment by reason of his service-connected left knee and right knee disabilities, and whether locomotion would be precluded without use of a left knee brace or without the use of a left knee brace and a cane.
The deciding factor: The case requires medical judgment to determine if the veteran is permanently and totally disabled from obtaining and retaining substantially gainful employment by reason of his service-connected disabilities, including his service-connected left knee and right knee disorders. Additionally, it needs to be determined whether locomotion would be precluded without use of a left knee brace or without the use of a left knee brace and a cane.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative left total knee arthroplasty, right knee disability, degenerative disc disease of the lumbosacral spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0624778
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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
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