The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for additional VA examinations and records, including time and attendance records from his former job.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence (VA examination reports and treatment records) are needed to properly assess the current severity of the Veteran's knee conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee ligament laxity, left knee ligament laxity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1036333
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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 Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for additional development, including obtaining medical opinions and VA treatment records. The issues of service connection for a right knee disorder, higher ratings for left knee ligament laxity and limitation of flexion due to traumatic arthritis (left knee), and a compensable rating for residuals of left ankle talus fracture are remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development due to inadequate consideration of the effects of the Veteran's knee disorders and referral for extraschedular consideration.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected left knee ligament laxity is not characterized by moderate recurrent subluxation or lateral instability, and therefore does not warrant a higher disability rating.
- 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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