The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for a new VA examination to determine if his current spine, bilateral hip, and bilateral knee disorders are related to his military service. The examiner must consider the Veteran's lay statements of in-service duties and continuity of symptomatology.
The deciding factor: A new VA examination is needed to address whether any degree of the Veteran's low back, bilateral knee, or bilateral hip disorders were caused by his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hip disorder, bilateral knee disorder, spine disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 7, 2013
- Citation
- 1315044
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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 claims for a VA examination and medical opinion to determine if the Veteran's low back disorder and bilateral hip disorder are related to his service-connected Crohn's disease.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for a thoracolumbar spine disability, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss disorder, gout, multiple painful joints, bilateral ankle disorder, bilateral knee disorder, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims of service connection for bilateral shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hip disorders due to a lack of current diagnoses in the medical records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that a remand is needed to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically regarding the etiology of the Veteran's bilateral hip disorder and whether it is related to his service-connected right knee disabilities.
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