The Board has remanded the cases for further development due to an incomplete examination report and to schedule another examination.
The deciding factor: The examination was not thorough enough to determine the current severity of the Veteran's right knee disabilities, particularly regarding the right knee instability and arthritis.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee medial compartment arthritis, chondromalacia of the patella, patellofemoral arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 15, 2020
- Citation
- 20047280
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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 Veteran's left knee ACL repair surgery resulted in a period of convalescence for at least thirty days, and the Board has granted her temporary total rating based on this.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a left knee condition as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral plantar fasciitis with pes planus, degenerative arthritis, and heel spurs.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to deficiencies in the development of evidence, particularly regarding the severity of his service-connected right knee disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claim for an initial rating higher than 10 percent for left knee strain and patellofemoral arthritis due to inadequate notification of a scheduled VA examination.
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