Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter to obtain a new VA medical opinion regarding the severity of the left knee DJD without the ameliorative effects of medication during the limited appeal period.
The deciding factor: The Board erred in failing to address Ingram v. Collins, which holds that when rating musculoskeletal conditions, the beneficial effects of medications must be discounted where the applicable Diagnostic Code does not reference medication as a factor in the rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) of the left knee
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2025
- Citation
- 25013390
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