The Board remands the claims for service connection for left and right shoulder disabilities, left and right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, and left knee disabilities to correct pre-decisional errors in the duty to assist.

The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided were found inadequate due to failure to address credible lay evidence and inaccurate factual premises.

Claimed conditions

left shoulder disabilities, to include osteoarthritis of the left shoulder, shoulder joint replacement (total shoulder arthroplasty/hemiarthroplasty), and status post open biceps tenodesis, right shoulder disabilities, to include shoulder joint replacement (total shoulder arthroplasty/hemiarthroplasty) and status post open biceps tenodesis, left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, left knee disabilities, to include osteoarthritis of the left knee; status post revision left total knee arthroplasty; and left knee instability

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

Camp Lejeune water

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

December 16, 2025

Citation

A25108371

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