The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining service records and VA treatment records, as well as scheduling a VA examination to determine if any current bilateral knee/leg disability is related to active military service or periods of ACDUTRA or INACDUTRA.
The deciding factor: The decision is pending further investigation and medical evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee/leg disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 27, 2007
- Citation
- 0737138
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for headaches and tinnitus, but remanded the claims for bilateral hearing loss, a bilateral hand disability, a bilateral knee/leg disability, an acquired psychiatric disability, a heart disability, and a back disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for further development due to deficiencies in a previous VA opinion regarding the nature and etiology of the Veteran's knee/leg and ankle disabilities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases due to insufficient diagnoses and nexus opinions regarding the Veteran's knee/leg and ankle disabilities, which are related to service-connected bilateral pes planus.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for tinnitus, sinus disability, and bilateral knee/leg disability (claimed as buckling of the knees and legs) due to a lack of evidence showing these conditions had their onset in service or are otherwise related to service.
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