The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for service connection for right and left hip pain as secondary to his service-connected lumbosacral strain due to inadequate medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not provide adequate rationale for their opinion, which is required for rating purposes.
- Claimed conditions
- Right hip pain, Left hip pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2026
- Citation
- A26020590
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for right knee pain and right hip pain due to insufficient medical evidence on file regarding their etiology. The AOJ is required to obtain an adequate opinion from a qualified medical examiner.
- Denied
The Veteran's right hip disability has been manifested by painful motion, with flexion limited to 50 degrees and extension greater than 5 degrees. The Board denied ratings in excess of the current 10 percent for right hip pain, trochanteric pain syndrome, femoral acetabular impingement syndrome.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for left hip pain and increased ratings for right and left knee disabilities. The Veteran's claim for increased ratings for her bilateral knee disabilities is denied as her flexion does not reach a level that would warrant a higher rating.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for depressive disorder and left hip pain, but granted service connection for lumbar left lower extremity radiculopathy.
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