The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for left knee medial meniscus tear with moderate osteoarthritis and right knee mild osteoarthritis due to incomplete medical records and insufficient opinions in the VA examination reports.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners did not consider the Veteran’s assertions of continuity of symptomatology and fully address the Veteran's in-service treatment records that indicate the Veteran tore his ligaments and was unable to fully extend his right knee as a result of his in-service acute right knee strain.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee medial meniscus tear with moderate osteoarthritis, right knee mild osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 10, 2020
- Citation
- 20039810
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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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for right knee mild osteoarthritis, finding that the condition manifested within one year of separation from service and is not attributable to intercurrent causes.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a right knee disability as secondary to the Veteran's already service-connected left knee disability.
- Denied
The veteran's right knee mild osteoarthritis is currently rated at 10 percent, and the Board found that a higher rating is not warranted.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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