The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence and need for further examination. The Veteran's right knee osteoarthritis claims are being reviewed again.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional VA treatment records and a new VA examination to assess the current severity of the Veteran's right knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee osteoarthritis with tendonitis, right knee osteoarthritis with painful motion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 12, 2023
- Citation
- 23038468
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board denied several claims for increased ratings and granted some, including a 20% rating for right ankle arthritis from April 2, 2022, and separate 30% ratings for left and right knee ankylosis starting May 23, 2022.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted an initial rating of 20 percent for right knee osteoarthritis with painful motion from April 1, 2015, and a 10 percent rating for right knee instability from April 1, 2015 to May 4, 2018. The claim for an increased rating higher than 10 percent for right knee instability was denied from May 5, 2018.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded to obtain additional service treatment and personnel records, clarify his National Guard service status, provide notice regarding the requirements for reopening a secondary service connection claim, schedule VA examinations for his right knee, low back, and psychiatric disabilities, and determine whether he is unemployable due to his service-connected conditions.
- 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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