The Board remands the issues for further development, including obtaining outstanding medical records and scheduling appropriate VA examinations to determine the severity of the Veteran's service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: There are outstanding treatment records from 2014 to 2021 that need to be obtained as well as a lack of compliance with previous remand directives regarding the adequacy of recent VA examinations for the knees and lumbar spine, and an examination is needed to determine the severity of eustachian tube dysfunction.
- Claimed conditions
- internal derangement of the right knee, to include right knee tendonitis and bursitis, internal derangement of the left knee, to include left knee tendonitis and bursitis, lumbar spine strain, peripheral vestibular disorder, allergic rhinitis with non-traumatic deviated septum, chronic sinusitis, eustachian tube dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 11, 2025
- Citation
- 25003446
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,050 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
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- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
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