The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for hip and back disabilities due to insufficient development of evidence, including a need for new VA medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The current nature and etiology of the Veteran’s hip and back disabilities need further evaluation by an examiner.
- Claimed conditions
- hip arthritis, sacroiliitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2019
- Citation
- 19105287
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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for multiple conditions, including a back condition, sacroiliitis, and degenerative arthritis in various joints.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted a 40 percent rating for her sacroiliitis, effective November 23, 2010, and service connection for right and left lower extremity radiculopathy of the sciatic nerve as secondary to her service-connected sacroiliitis.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for left foot pes planus was dismissed because she already received service connection for this condition. The claims for fibromyalgia, left hip bursitis, and sacroiliitis were remanded for further evaluation.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 20 percent for sacroiliitis based on the evidence showing that forward flexion of the thoracolumbar spine was greater than 30 degrees and there was no favorable ankylosis.
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