The Board has decided that the Veteran's service-connected hip disabilities require further examination to determine their current severity and functional impairment.
The deciding factor: Further medical evaluation is necessary to accurately assess the current state of the Veteran's hip conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip bursitis, limitation of extension of the left thigh, limitation of extension of the right thigh, limitation of abduction, adduction, and rotation of the left thigh, limitation of abduction, adduction, and rotation of the right thigh
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19115829
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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.
- Partly granted
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- Denied
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for right ankle tendonitis and right hip bursitis, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating under applicable criteria.
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