Remanded (sent back)
The appeal is remanded to obtain additional medical opinions on whether the veteran's obesity, caused by his service-connected knee condition, contributed to his right hip strain.
The deciding factor: The Board found a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error in not obtaining an addendum medical opinion addressing the role of obesity as an intermediate step between the service-connected knee condition and the claimed hip strain.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip strain, degenerative joint disease of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25004284
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