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
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease, left tibial tubercle, Osgood-Schlatter's disease, right tibial tubercle, retropatellar pain syndrome, left knee, retropatellar pain syndrome, right knee
- 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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Decisions by this judge: 705 · Granted: 38% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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