The Board has decided that the Veteran's left hip trochanteric bursitis is not related to service or his service-connected low back disability, and remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: There are no adequate opinions of record addressing whether the Veteran’s claimed left hip disability is related to service or caused by his service-connected back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- trochanteric bursitis of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19191452
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for special monthly compensation (SMC) based on aid and attendance/housebound status due to a lack of evidence showing that her service-connected disabilities rendered her in need of regular aid and attendance or housebound.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew all appeals for increased disability ratings, and the Board dismissed them.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings for his left and right hip disabilities on an extraschedular basis have been denied. The Board found that the available schedular evaluations were adequate to describe the disability level and symptomatology, and there were no related factors such as marked interference with employment or frequent periods of hospitalization.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's TDIU claim is remanded due to its inextricability with the increased ratings for his hip conditions. The matter of increased ratings for trochanteric bursitis of both hips remains pending.
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