The Board has remanded the claims for additional development, including obtaining VA and private treatment records. The TDIU claim is also inextricably intertwined with the right knee, left knee, and back disability issues.
The deciding factor: The Board finds that a remand is necessary to ensure complete evidence for appellate review, particularly regarding the Veteran's unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) of right knee, Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) of left knee, Intervertebral disc syndrome with degenerative arthritic changes (back disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2021
- Citation
- 21065820
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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 issues of increased evaluations for the Veteran's knees, service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability (to include depression), and TDIU. The case will be returned to the Board after additional development is completed.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for additional development due to inadequate range of motion testing in previous examinations. The Veteran's service-connected right and left knee DJD, as well as his back disability, are being reviewed.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for right hip and right knee disabilities, finding that the evidence did not support a link between these conditions and military service or a service-connected condition.
- 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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