The Board remands the claims for further development, including a new VA examination to assess the current severity of the Veteran's right knee disabilities.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to an inadequate VA examination and lack of evidence showing proper notification of a scheduled examination.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee chondromalacia with painful motion, right knee chondromalacia with instability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25036614
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,432 · Granted: 29% (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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, which affect a single body system or arise from a common etiology, have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation for the entirety of the appeal period. As such, entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) is granted.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his claims for increased ratings of his right knee disability and NSAID-induced colitis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining a VA examination to assess the combined effect of his service-connected disabilities on his employability and associating all outstanding VA treatment records with the claims file.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development to obtain updated treatment records and a VA examination of his right knee, right hip/thigh, and scar of the right knee.
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