The Board remands the issues of entitlement to increased ratings for left knee arthritis with limitation of motion, instability, and status post partial medial meniscectomy due to inadequacies in the previous decision and an increase in the severity of the Veteran's disability.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain a new examination assessing the current severity of the left knee disability given increased reported severity and frequency of knee pain compared to the most recent examination.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee arthritis with limitation of motion, left knee arthritis with instability, left knee arthritis status post partial medial meniscectomy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2024
- Citation
- 24004555
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 Board denied earlier effective dates for the ratings of left knee arthritis with instability and loss of use of the bilateral lower extremities.
- Denied
The Veteran's residuals of a left knee meniscal tear result in pain, minor limitation of motion, arthritis, and little to no instability. Recent findings of left-sided weakness are clearly attributable to multiple cerebrovascular accidents (strokes) from 2004 and 2005, which are unrelated to the Veteran's left knee meniscal tear, and may not be considered in evaluating the Veteran's service-connected left knee disability.
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