Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for increased evaluations of right hip and left knee impairments to correct a duty to assist error, requiring additional examinations without considering the ameliorative effects of pain medications.
The deciding factor: The examination reports did not indicate whether the examiners considered the ameliorating effects of medication, necessitating another examination.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip inferior pubic ramus stress fracture, limitation of extension of right thigh, limitation of flexion of right thigh, left knee tendinitis with limitation of flexion, left knee tendinitis with limitation of extension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25099423
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