The Board has remanded the case due to a lack of adequate VA examination for determining the severity of left total knee arthroplasty residuals.
The deciding factor: Further evaluation is needed as the previous VA examination did not provide sufficient information regarding the functional impairment associated with the service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- left total knee arthroplasty residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2023
- Citation
- 23014606
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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 has granted service connection for left total knee arthroplasty residuals, finding that the disability is related to the service-connected right total knee arthroplasty residuals.
- Denied
The Board denied earlier effective dates for the awards of service connection and remanded claims for increased ratings.
- Denied
The Veteran's left total knee arthroplasty residuals have been productive of no worse than an intermediate degrees of weakness, pain, and limitation of motion. The Board denied a rating in excess of 30 percent as the evidence did not meet the criteria for such.
- 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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