The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for recurrent right knee, left knee, and left foot disabilities due to insufficient evidence in the record.
The deciding factor: The VA examination was not conducted by a medical doctor as instructed, necessitating another examination.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent right knee disability, degenerative joint disease (right knee), recurrent left knee disability, degenerative joint disease (left knee), recurrent left foot disability, hallux valgus (left foot), first metatarsal phalangeal joint degenerative joint disease (left foot)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 13, 2021
- Citation
- 21021766
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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
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's claim for service connection for a recurrent left knee disability, including chronic pain, should be remanded due to insufficient evidence and need for further examination.
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