Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral shoulder, hip and ankle conditions as well as a TDIU due to the need for additional medical opinions addressing secondary causation and aggravation.
The deciding factor: The appeal must be remanded again because the VA medical opinions addressed secondary causation but not secondary aggravation.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder condition (also claimed as body aches and arthritis), right shoulder condition (also claimed as body aches and arthritis), left hip condition (also claimed as body aches and arthritis), right hip condition (also claimed as body aches and arthritis), left ankle condition (also claimed as body aches and arthritis), right ankle condition (also claimed as body aches and arthritis)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 3, 2025
- Citation
- 25003003
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