The appeal is remanded for further evidentiary development, including obtaining Social Security Administration records and scheduling a new VA examination.
The deciding factor: Further evidence is needed to properly assess the current severity of the Veteran's right knee disability due to missing SSA records and reported worsening of symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2009
- Citation
- 0908114
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Decisions by this judge: 2,156 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
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