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 assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 11, 2025
- Citation
- 25003446
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