The Board has remanded the case to obtain an addendum opinion regarding whether the Veteran's bilateral hip disability is aggravated by his service-connected knee and/or lumbar spine disabilities.
The deciding factor: The current medical evidence does not address the legal standard for determining aggravation of a disability, which requires consideration of whether it is at least as likely as not that any diagnosed condition was aggravated by another condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Left wrist tendinitis, Bilateral hip disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 28, 2024
- Citation
- A24027589
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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
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- Dismissed
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