The Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral knee injuries is being remanded due to the need for a medical opinion regarding whether any current knee conditions are related to active military service.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions are needed to determine if any of the diagnosed knee conditions are related to the Veteran's active military service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of bilateral knee injury, right knee contusion, partial tear of right ACL with joint effusion, degenerative changes of right lateral meniscus, left knee degenerative joint disease and small joint effusion, mild strain of ligaments of knees, chondromalacia patellae
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 15, 2011
- Citation
- 1142263
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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 Board denied the veteran's claims for evaluations in excess of 10 percent for both left and right knee disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for left and right knee disabilities, finding that the evidence did not support a link between current knee conditions and service.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim of CUE in the May 1994 rating decision that awarded service connection for chondromalacia patellae of both knees and assigned a single 10 percent rating, finding no clear and unmistakable error.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for a thorough and contemporaneous medical examination to determine the current nature of the Veteran's right knee condition. The TDIU claim is also being referred to the Director, Compensation Service, for extraschedular consideration.
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