The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for additional examinations and clarification of his claims. The left knee DJD case will be reconsidered after obtaining new evidence and clarifying the nature of his pre-operative diagnoses.
The deciding factor: The examination report must include a detailed assessment of the current severity of the Veteran’s service-connected left knee DJD, including testing on active and passive motion in weight-bearing and non-weight-bearing conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD), left knee, Mucoid degeneration of the medial meniscus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18157026
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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.
- Denied
The Veteran's appeals for higher ratings for his right and left knee disabilities were denied. A separate rating of 20% was granted for the left knee semilunar cartilage dislocation starting from March 1, 2022.
- Denied
The Veteran's initial compensable evaluation for DJD, left knee prior to August 30, 2017, and a rating in excess of 10 percent thereafter is denied as his condition does not warrant such evaluations based on limitation of flexion or extension.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient information provided by a previous VA examination, specifically regarding range of motion testing and functional loss during flare-ups. The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for his left knee DJD is now pending.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for her left knee disability was denied. The effective date of service connection for her DJD with painful motion of the left knee is set at October 30, 2003.
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