The Board is remanding the claims for service connection due to insufficient evidence and need for further examination. The Veteran's right knee and leg conditions are being evaluated again by VA medical professionals.
The deciding factor: Further evaluation is needed to determine if current disabilities are related to service, including an in-service injury during basic training.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD), right knee, Varicosities, lower right leg
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 7, 2011
- Citation
- 1125582
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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
The Veteran's appeals for higher ratings for his right and left knee disabilities were denied. A separate rating of 20% was granted for the left knee semilunar cartilage dislocation starting from March 1, 2022.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for degenerative joint disease (DJD) of the right knee, finding that DJD was not incurred or aggravated by service and is not otherwise related to any incident of service.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for degenerative joint disease of the right knee, finding that it is at least as likely as not related to the Veteran's in-service injury. However, the Veteran does not require regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected condition.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings for DJD, right knee and instability, right knee were denied as there is no evidence of more than slight instability or limitation of motion warranting a higher rating.
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