The Board has remanded the cases of service connection for right knee disability, left knee disability, and left Achilles tendonitis due to inadequate opinions regarding their relationship with service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion was found to be inadequate as it did not address the relationship between current disabilities and service. Additionally, an addendum opinion is needed to clarify the relationship of the right foot disability to the knees and Achilles tendonitis.
- Claimed conditions
- Recurrent callus, Scars, Status post-surgical correction of the second and fifth hammertoes, Degenerative joint disease of the second metacarpophalangeal joint
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19116473
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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.
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