The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to inadequate reasons and bases in two areas: failure to adequately consider pain and functional loss of the left knee at 110 degrees of flexion and on full extension, and failure to address whether a higher or separate rating was warranted based on consideration of Diagnostic Codes 5257, 5260, and 5261.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the reasons and bases for its decision were inadequate in two areas related to pain and functional loss of the left knee at specific ranges of motion and in addressing whether a higher or separate rating was warranted based on certain diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- status-post total left knee replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 2, 2009
- Citation
- 0924988
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal involves multiple knee disabilities, including status post surgeries and replacements. The case is being remanded for further development to address the severity of these conditions.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal has been withdrawn, and the case is dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for an increased rating for his postoperative residuals of a lateral meniscectomy, arthrotomy, arthroscopic debridement, and status-post total left knee replacement, finding that the disability did not meet or approximate criteria warranting a higher evaluation.
- 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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