Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, a back disability, and a right shoulder disability to provide additional medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The Board failed to address the Veteran's arguments and relevant evidence regarding the etiology of his claimed conditions in relation to his service-connected knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder, claimed as depression, anxiety, and kleptomania, Back disability, to include as secondary to service-connected left knee disabilities, Right shoulder disability, to include as secondary to service-connected left knee disabilities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 8, 2025
- Citation
- 25012638
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