Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection of right and left knee, right and left hip, and bilateral shoulder disabilities to obtain additional medical opinions that comply with the terms of a Joint Motion for Remand.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions provided are inadequate as they did not specifically address whether the Veteran's knee, hip, and shoulder disabilities are etiologically related to an in-service ambush injury.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee degenerative arthritis, left knee degenerative arthritis, right hip degenerative arthritis, left hip degenerative arthritis, bilateral shoulder degenerative arthritis and impairment syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2025
- Citation
- 25002397
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