Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a medical opinion addressing whether the Veteran's service-connected bilateral tibial stress fractures aggravated his non-service-connected erectile dysfunction.
The deciding factor: The September 2023 VA opinion did not provide separate findings or rationales relating to causation and aggravation, which are independent concepts. An addendum medical opinion is needed to address this.
- Claimed conditions
- erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25097675
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