The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection and increased rating for left hip disabilities due to conflicting evidence regarding their etiology. The Veteran needs a VA examination to clarify whether his sacroiliac joint disability is related to his service-connected back or hip disabilities, and if not, determine its cause.
The deciding factor: The Board found insufficient evidence to resolve the issue of service connection for the left hip disabilities due to conflicting medical opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- left sacroiliac joint disability, limitation of adduction of the left hip, limitation in extension of the left hip, limitation of flexion of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19187444
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Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (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
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's bilateral hip conditions and set an effective date of September 4, 2024.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board has granted service connection for various hip, ankle, and knee conditions. However, the Veteran did not appeal these decisions to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC), so the claims are dismissed.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeals for earlier effective dates related to various left and right hip, knee, shoulder, and other conditions as they were freestanding claims not continuously pursued from the initial rating decisions.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied a rating in excess of 40 percent for myasthenia gravis with ptosis and remanded the ratings for avascular necrosis, hip flexion limitations, and lower extremity weakness.
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