Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for a low back condition and right knee condition, as the current evidence is inadequate to determine whether these conditions are related to the Veteran's service or secondary to his service-connected PTSD with obesity as an intermediate step.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not adequately address the Veteran's contentions that his disabilities were caused by or aggravated by his service-connected PTSD through the intermediate step of obesity, and direct service connection was also not addressed.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back condition, Right knee condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25008638
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