The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining SSA records and scheduling examinations to assess his neck, back, hips, knees, shoulders, and ankles.
The deciding factor: The VA examination opinions are inadequate for rating purposes due to the lack of discussion regarding whether any current disabilities are related to service-connected right knee disability or if they were aggravated by it.
- Claimed conditions
- osteochondromatosis of the left knee, osteochondromatosis of the right hip, osteochondromatosis of the left hip, osteochondromatosis of the left shoulder, osteochondromatosis of the left ankle, chronic neck syndrome with disc bulge at C4-5 and C5-6, low back disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 24, 2010
- Citation
- 1006767
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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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