The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional evaluations and adjudication of her TDIU claim due to the need for updated medical examinations and consideration of her employment status.
The deciding factor: The VA needs more information about the current severity and nature of the Veteran's hip disabilities, including range of motion measurements during a flare-up or after repeated use.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip impairment, left hip flexion, left hip and pelvis stress reaction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 15, 2018
- Citation
- 18150478
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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 determined that additional evidence is needed and a new examination is required to properly assess the Veteran's service-connected left hip disability, as well as remand for an HLR informal conference.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal has been dismissed due to his death. The Board does not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of the appeal for various service-connected knee and hip disabilities.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for earlier effective dates of service connection awards for various hip and shoulder conditions have been dismissed due to concurrent elections.,An earlier effective date claim for the right shoulder disability has also been dismissed.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for all issues related to hip flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and rotation ratings as well as service connection for bladder disorder. Effective October 15, 2019, SMC was granted due to the Veteran's multiple service-connected disabilities.
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