The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinion regarding the relationship between the Veteran's left knee disability and his service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner failed to consider all relevant service treatment records documenting left knee symptoms, including pain and diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Knee Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 30, 2023
- Citation
- 23063521
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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.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected conditions were denied effective dates prior to April 23, 2016.
- Granted
The Veteran's left knee PFPS was granted a 20 percent rating since October 19, 2010 for limitation of flexion. A separate 10 percent evaluation is granted on and after March 5, 2018 for limitation of extension. The right knee PFPS has been denied ratings higher than 30 percent since March 5, 2018.
- Granted
The Veteran's initial increased evaluation for left knee PFPS prior to July 9, 2018 is granted.,An initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for left knee PFPS since July 9, 2018 is denied.,A 10 percent evaluation for a left knee meniscal injury is granted effective July 3, 2017.
- 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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