Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of service connection for a bilateral knee disability for further development, including obtaining additional medical evidence and a new VA examination.
The deciding factor: The opinion from the private physician is inadequate due to lack of rationale and incomplete diagnostic imaging. The VA examiner's opinion is also inadequate as it relied solely on the absence of evidence without considering the Veteran's lay reports of symptoms in service that continued from that time.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral knee disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2025
- Citation
- A25009278
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