The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence in the VA examination report, particularly regarding the Veteran's right knee disability during flare-ups. The Veteran needs a new VA examination that complies with Correia and Sharp.
The deciding factor: The examination did not provide sufficient evidence to evaluate the severity of the Veteran’s right knee disability during flare-ups.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee anterior cruciate ligament repair, tibial tubercle osteotomy, patellar realignment
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 22, 2020
- Citation
- 20042152
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to incomplete development of medical records and lack of specific range of motion measurements for the Veteran's right knee condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development due to incomplete medical opinions regarding the Veteran's left knee disability. The issues are whether a higher rating is warranted and if a separate 40 percent rating should be assigned for patellofemoral pain syndrome, meniscal tear, and patellar realignment with limited extension.
- Granted
The Board has restored the Veteran's prior ratings for right knee limited extension and anterior cruciate ligament repair with nondisabling surgical scars, finding that the reduction was based on an examination less full and complete than the one used to authorize payments.
- 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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