The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased ratings for her service-connected right knee disability due to new evidence and outstanding VA treatment records.
The deciding factor: New evidence indicates that the Veteran’s right knee disability may have worsened since her last examination, necessitating a new VA examination to assess current severity.
- Claimed conditions
- limitation of motion of the right knee, patellofemoral pain syndrome of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 29, 2020
- Citation
- 20030265
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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 Veteran's claims for increased ratings and effective dates were denied. The Board found no factual basis to grant earlier effective dates.,The Veteran was granted a TDIU and DEA eligibility effective September 15, 2022.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for limitation of motion and instability of the right knee is granted with an effective date of May 17, 2011. The Veteran's claims for increased ratings are remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied an effective date earlier than May 26, 2016, for a separate rating for right knee instability and left knee instability. The claims for higher ratings based on limitation of motion and instability of the knees, separate ratings for meniscus conditions of the knees, and secondary service connection claims were remanded.
- Partly granted
The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's right and left knee disabilities, except for a 20 percent rating for instability of both knees as of June 13, 2025.
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