The Board has remanded the claims of service connection for right and left knee strain with arthritis secondary to pes planus due to conflicting medical opinions regarding obesity as an intermediate step in the causation.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on conflicting medical opinions about whether obesity, caused by service-connected pes planus, was a substantial factor in causing or aggravating the Veteran's knee conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee strain with arthritis, left knee strain with arthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 9, 2024
- Citation
- A24053961
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left knee strain with arthritis and right knee strain with arthritis as secondary to his service-connected bilateral pes planus, finding that there was no medical nexus linking these disabilities to his service-connected pes planus.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied an initial rating higher than 50 percent for PTSD, granted a 20 percent rating for bilateral dry eye syndrome, and denied ratings higher than 10 percent for left knee strain with arthritis and a compensable initial rating for right ear hearing loss. The Board also denied service connection for left ear hearing loss, tinnitus, left hip arthralgia, right hip arthralgia, right foot pes planus and plantar fasciitis, status post subtalar joint arthrodesis (right foot condition), and candida infections but granted service connection for left leg lower extremity radiculopathy and right leg lower extremity radiculopathy secondary to lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied a compensable rating for the right knee based on limitation of flexion but granted a separate 20 percent rating for semilunar cartilage.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder was dismissed as the issue is moot due to a full grant of benefits. The claims for increased ratings and service connection for other conditions were remanded for further development.
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