Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral knee conditions as additional evidence and an inadequate medical opinion require further development.
The deciding factor: The examiner's opinion was found to be inadequate due to a lack of substantive rationale, particularly regarding the onset of the Veteran's knee pain during service.
- Claimed conditions
- retropatellar pain syndrome, left knee, Osgood-Schlatter's disease, left tibial tubercle, retropatellar pain syndrome, right knee, Osgood-Schlatter's disease, right tibial tubercle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25016013
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