The Board has determined that additional development is needed to ascertain the current severity and manifestations of the Veteran's service-connected left knee disability, including range of motion measurements. The case will be returned for further development.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner was unable to provide specific range of motion findings due to limitations in their personal knowledge or the medical community at large.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee posterolateral ligament reconstruction with osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2023
- Citation
- 23014808
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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 remands the case for additional development, including a VA examination to assess the severity of the Veteran's left knee disability and an extraschedular referral for TDIU based on his service-connected left knee alone.
- Denied
The Veteran's left knee disability, which includes posterolateral ligament reconstruction and osteoarthritis, is currently rated at 20 percent. The Board found that the current evaluation does not meet the criteria for an increased rating as there are no findings of actual or functional flexion limited to 15 degrees or less; actual or functional extension limited to 10 degrees or greater; a meniscus condition or removal of semilunar cartilage; ankylosis; or genu recurvatum.
- 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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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