The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's bilateral foot disability is proximately due to or caused by his service-connected knee disability.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not provide an etiology opinion on the secondary service connection claim for nerve damage to feet as secondary to the service-connected disability of degenerative joint disease of the left knee.
- Claimed conditions
- nerve damage to feet, degenerative joint disease of left knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 22, 2016
- Citation
- 1629299
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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
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