The Board has remanded the case for additional development and a hearing before a Veterans Law Judge.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requested a Travel Board hearing, which was granted.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee tricompartmental arthritis, slight recurrent subluxation or lateral instability with giving way
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 13, 2009
- Citation
- 0918038
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
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 claims for initial compensable evaluations for right and left knee tricompartmental arthritis with limitation of extension due to incomplete development in the current evaluation.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for increased evaluations of his right and left knee tricompartmental arthritis have been withdrawn. As a result, the Board does not have jurisdiction to review these claims.
- Granted
The veteran's left knee tricompartmental arthritis results in flexion limited to 120 degrees and extension limited to 0 degrees, with some evidence of pain. The Board granted a separate 10 percent rating for slight recurrent subluxation or lateral instability of the left knee from March 29, 2005.
- 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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