The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for left and right knee disabilities, as well as the claim for TDIU due to service-connected disabilities. The reasons are that no VA examiner has addressed all of the Veteran’s knee conditions during the claims period.
The deciding factor: VA needs to obtain an addendum opinion from an appropriate clinician addressing the Veteran's left and right knee disabilities, including bilateral degenerative arthritis, horizontal cleavage tear of the medial meniscus, baker cyst, chondromalacia, and shin splints.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee shin splints, bilateral horizontal cleavage tear of the medial meniscus, bilateral baker cyst, bilateral chondromalacia, degenerative joint disease (DJD) in left knee, degenerative joint disease (DJD) in right knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19115329
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,104 · Granted: 28% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral chondromalacia and dismissed the appeal for service connection for asthma due to untimely filing.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of May 3, 2023 for the grant of a 10 percent disability rating for left knee strain, limitation of extension and granted a separate disability rating for left knee shin splints. The increased rating claim was denied.
- Denied
The Veteran's bilateral hearing loss is rated at 0 percent, the lowest possible rating.,The Veteran's tinnitus is currently rated at 10 percent and cannot be increased further under VA regulations.,The Veteran's left knee shin splints are rated at 10 percent due to requiring treatment for more than 12 consecutive months.,The Veteran's right knee shin splints are also rated at 10 percent based on the same criteria.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for right and left knee conditions, finding no evidence of in-service injury or disease that led to current diagnoses.
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