The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining updated VA treatment records and a medical opinion regarding whether any right leg disorder was aggravated by service, to include physical training. The appeal is REMANDED.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's current diagnoses of right leg disorders may have been aggravated by his physical training requirements during periods of Reserve service.
- Claimed conditions
- right leg disorder
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 21, 2015
- Citation
- 1521954
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