The Board remands the claims for a disability rating in excess of 10 percent for right knee disability prior to October 1, 2018 and entitlement to TDIU prior to August 28, 2017 due to inadequate VA opinions.
The deciding factor: The VA examination opinion did not substantially comply with the Board's remand directives as it failed to adequately estimate the Veteran's active motion, passive motion, and pain with weight-bearing and without weight-bearing prior to October 1, 2018, and did not discuss whether the Veteran has had the functional equivalent of ankylosis of the right knee during flare-ups.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 3, 2025
- Citation
- 25012481
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