BVA Decisions on Arthritis
50 real Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving arthritis. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.
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Case 24-2408 — Vacated / Remanded April 30,2025The Board subsequently remanded the claim to obtain a medical nexus opinion, directing the examiner to address the appellant's statements that his knee disability resulted from car...
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Case 22-1071 — Vacated October 31,2023October 2019 Board Remand and Development In an October 2019 remand order,the Board found that a new VA examination was required to address the severity of her service-connected le...
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Case 19-4559 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed July 30,2020Shanahan ,through counsel appeals a March 19,2019,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board) decision finding that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen a claim of entit...
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Case 24-4510 — Unknown September 9,2025PIETSCH, Judge : Maria Teresa Martinez-Homick ,through counsel,appeals an April 4, 2024,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that (1) denied service connection for upper extre...
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Case 17-3598 — Vacated / Remanded May 8,2019Wisgo , through counsel,appeals a June 13,2017,Board of Veteran's Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for an inguinal hernia and back disability....
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Case 22-1803 — Unknown October 30,2023The veteran asserted that though he was granted service connection in March 1985 for neuropathy of the left common peroneal nerve,the March 1985 rating decision did not address ser...
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Case 08-2005 — Vacated / Remanded March 13,2009LANCE, Judge :The appellant,James Baker,through counsel,appeals a June 24,2008, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that found new and material evidence had not been submitte...
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Case 22-2306 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded September 29,2023Silberstein , through counsel,appeals a December 29,2021,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for (1)asthma,manifested by shortnes...
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Case 23-4041 — Vacated / Remanded January 28,2025In addition,the appellant maintains that the VA examiner failed to consider or comment on (1)[the appellant] not being permitted to stay overnight;(2)his lay statements that after ...
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Case 16-3963 — Affirmed October 26,2017SCHOELEN, Judge :The appellant, Milton Hamberry,through counsel,appeals a September 30,2016 Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied a disability compens...
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Case 23-2641 — Vacated / Remanded July 2,2024Therefore, [his] skin condition is at least as likely as not related to his military service....
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Case 12-0603 — Affirmed September 30,2013The Board noted that VA had not provided the appellant with a medical examination and opinion regarding whether his hip disorder is related to service (nexus opinion)to assist in e...
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Case 20-1421 — Affirmed July 30,2021After reviewing the February 2018 examination,the Board denied the appellant service connection for his conditions based on a lack of nexus between the disabilities and service....
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Case 12-1043 — Affirmed September 25,2013Finally,the Board found that the appellant's bilateral knee and left ankle conditions were not etiologically related to his active duty military service....
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Case 12-0393 — Vacated / Remanded June 25,2013In December 1981,the Board denied the appellant entitlement to disability benefits for a left knee disability....
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Case 14-0328 — Affirmed June 26,2015Yarasavych ,through counsel,appeals a November 19,2013,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claim for disability compensation for peroneal nerve...
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Case 20-5554 — Affirmed October 29,20212 In October 2014,the Board denied service connection for a kidney stone disability....
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Case 21-0814 — Vacated / Remanded January 10,2022The same month, the Board denied 1 When an unlisted condition is encountered it will be permissible to rate under a closely related disease or injury in which not only the function...
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Case 99-357 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded July 21, 2000ent of Veterans Affairs (VA) service connection for hernias and a low-back disorder; (2) found that new and material evidence had not been presented to reopen a previously and fina...
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Case 12-1295 — Vacated / Remanded April 25,2013The examiner diagnosed DJD of the lumbar spine,but stated that he was unable to resolve the issue of nexus without resort to speculation....
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Case 23-6490 — Vacated / Remanded November 25,2024Slater-Blackwell appeals through counsel a September 6,2023,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision finding no new and material evidence sufficient to reopen previously denied cl...
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Case 14-0783 — Affirmed April 23,2015The examiner's rationale concludes: Thus there is no nexus or medical evidence of chronic left knee pain that was continuous after the veteran left the service....
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Case 23-6889 — Vacated / Remanded December 30,2024The Board noted that the 2011 claim was for shin splints....
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Case 09-3224 — Affirmed February 25,2011Ackerman was not entitled to benefits for bilateral hearing loss was not clearly erroneous;because the September 2003 VA medical examination,including the November 2003 addendum,wa...
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Case 15-0594 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed October 31,2016He appeals,through counsel,a December 9,2014, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that denied entitlement to service connection for right hand arthritis and determined that n...
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Case 10-2739 — Vacated / Remanded February 21,2012The Board concluded that the preponderance of the evidence is against the appellant's claim....
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Case 13-1457 — Vacated / Remanded June 11,2014In a February 2003 rating decision,the RO explained that service connection for a bilateral shoulder condition had been denied in March 1995 and that the appellant had not submitte...
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Case 11-0235 — Vacated / Remanded June 28,2012SCHOELEN, Judge :The appellant, Richard Stehlik , appeals through counsel an October 5,2010,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied him entitlement to s...
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Case 21-0208 — Affirmed January 24,2022Regarding a nexus to service, the examiner acknowledged that the appellant had injured his right knee during service, but the examiner noted that the appellant subsequently denied ...
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Case 10-3047 — Vacated / Remanded April 10,2012The examiner concluded that the appellant's knee condition is not related to his service....
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Case 20-5820 — Unknown October 29,2021PIETSCH, Judge :The appellant appeals the May 6,2020,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied the petitions to reopen the previously denied claims of ent...
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Case 21-2787 — Affirmed September 14,2022Because the Board's determination that the criteria for entitlement to service connection for a back disability have not been met is not clearly erroneous and because the Board sup...
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Case 08-0404 — Affirmed April 15,2010393 (1998), the Board determined that medical evidence of a nexus between PTSD and the claimed stressor alone is insufficient to establish that the claimed inservice stressor actua...
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Case 07-0693 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated November 17,2008In that decision,the Board determined that the ratings assigned (for various time periods)for the appellant's knee conditions were appropriate and that increased ratings were,there...
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Case 10-0889 — Vacated June 20,2011The Board noted that the appellant's service treatment records show no signs of a spine injury....
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Case 04-0185 — Vacated June 5, 2006McLendon argues that the Board erred in its evaluation of the evidence and that the Secretary failed to provide him with a VA medical examination pursuant to 38 U....
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Case 17-4070 — Remanded / Vacated November 19,2018SCHOELEN, Judge :The appellant, Hiram Pedraza-Torres , through counsel,appeals an August 25,2017,Board of Veteran's Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connec...
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Case 16-2957 — Vacated / Remanded January 23,2018In a December 2006 decision,the Board denied the appellant's increased rating claim....
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Case 15-3134 — Affirmed March 18,2016The appellant contends that the Board failed to apply the benefit of the doubt standard in weighing the evidence for and against service connection....
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Case 17-0442 — Affirmed February 7,2018In February 2012,the RO did not reopen the appellant's claims because the evidence was not new and material....
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Case 21-5701 — Unknown January 10,2023In a March 2 2013 rating decision,a VA regional office (RO) denied service connection for an endocrine system disorder and right knee disorder and found no new and material evidenc...
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Case 23-4236 — Vacated / Remanded July 31,2024In the June 2023 decision on appeal, the Board denied reopening of the claim for service connection for left ankle disability....
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Case 23-1455 — Affirmed / Vacated January 25,2024The Board denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than March 23,2015,for the award of a separate rating for right knee flexion in a February 2019 decision....
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Case 10-0997 — Remanded / Reversed September 21,2011Reed ,appeals that part of the December 1,2009, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that determined that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen his claims...
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Case 22-5641 — Vacated / Remanded December 28,2023However, the Board determined that an additional examination was necessary because,although the 2017 examiner did not find evidence of radiculopathy,there was no evidence that an [...
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Case 22-6930 — Vacated / Remanded April 17,2024In October 2018,the Board denied entitlement to an initial disability rating greater than 10%for right knee chondromalacia patella with degenerative joint disease and granted a sep...
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Case 11-3583 — Vacated / Remanded February 28,2013Because the Board relied on an inadequate VA medical examination and failed to provide an adequate statement of reasons or bases for its credibility determination,the Court will va...
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Case 06-1358 — Vacated / Remanded May 21, 2008Garrett appeals through counsel a March 3, 2006, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board found that no new and material evidence had been submitted and there...
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Case 13-1968 — Affirmed July 29,2014In May 2009,the Board denied the appellant's claim based on its finding that the service records clearly and unmistakably established that the appellant's left knee disorder preexi...
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Case 23-6781 — Vacated / Remanded December 6,2024Parties'Arguments The appellant first argues that the Board erred in relying on the January 2023 VA examination report to deny higher ratings for his right knee disabilities....