The Board has reopened the Veteran's claims for service connection of lumbar spine disability, right knee disability, and left knee disability. The evidence received since the April 2005 denial relates to these conditions and provides a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted by the Veteran relates to his claimed disabilities and suggests they are related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease, lumbar spine, Right knee status post-surgery, Left knee arthritis status post-surgery
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2018
- Citation
- 1804633
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claim of service connection for degenerative disc disease, lumbar spine (claimed as back injury) due to inadequate VA examination and failure to comply with prior remand directives.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for a higher rating for degenerative disc disease, lumbar spine was dismissed due to concurrent election of review options.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for degenerative disc disease, lumbar spine, with muscle spasms; right elbow pain; and bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy/ sciatica as secondary to the back disability have all been granted.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of TDIU due to lack of factual support and found that the Veteran's unemployability was not a result of his service-connected conditions during the one-year look-back period.
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