The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims due to inadequate medical opinions and need for additional development.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions are insufficient, requiring new examinations to address the current severity of service-connected conditions and their relationship to other disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a concussion, degenerative joint disease of the left knee, degenerative joint disease of the right knee, degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine, degenerative changes of the right hip
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 28, 2010
- Citation
- 1028201
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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.
- Denied
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for hypertension, an increased rating for a stroke and stroke residuals, and an increased rating for degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for increased ratings of bilateral knee and ankle disabilities due to incomplete VA examinations.
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