Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for a lumbar spine disability, right hip disability, and left hip disability as secondary to service-connected bilateral pes planus with plantar fasciitis due to inadequate medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The examiner's opinion was found inadequate because it did not address whether the Veteran's disabilities were caused or aggravated by his service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine disability, right hip disability, left hip disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 18, 2025
- Citation
- 25014120
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