Citation Nr: 21014900 Decision Date: 03/16/21 Archive Date: 03/16/21 DOCKET NO. 12-22 922 DATE: March 16, 2021 REMANDED Entitlement to a rating greater than 10 percent for left knee instability is remanded. Entitlement to a rating greater than 10 percent for left knee osteoarthritis is remanded. REASONS FOR REMAND The Veteran had active service from August 1978 to August 2004. This matter comes before the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board) on appeal from a June 2017 rating decision by a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Regional Office (RO). In May 2020, the Board remanded the appeal for additional development. 1. Entitlement to a rating greater than 10 percent for left knee instability is remanded. 2. Entitlement to a rating greater than 10 percent for left knee osteoarthritis is remanded. The Board remanded this appeal in May 2020 for a new VA examination in accordance with Sharp v. Shulkin, 29 Vet. App. 26, 34-35 (2017) and Correia v. Mcdonald, 28 Vet. App. 158,168-170 (2016). The remand instructed the VA examiner to test the Veteran’s active motion, passive motion, and pain with weight-bearing and without weight-bearing. A new examination was performed in November 2020. The VA examiner commented that there is no evidence of pain on passive range of motion testing and in non-weightbearing, but did not provide the specific degrees of motion in each state, or explain why such measurements could not be provided or were not necessary. To be compliant with Correia, it is not enough that an examiner test range of motion for pain on both active and passive motion, in weight-bearing and nonweight-bearing. The VA examiner must also include the results of the range of motion testing, or explain why such measurements cannot be provided or are not necessary. See Correia, 28 Vet. App. at 168-170. An addendum is needed. See Stegall v. West, 11 Vet. App. 268 (1998). The matters are REMANDED for the following action: Schedule the Veteran for an examination by an appropriate clinician to determine the current severity of his service-connected left knee instability and osteoarthritis. The examiner should provide a full description of the disability and report all signs and symptoms necessary for evaluating the Veteran’s disability under the rating criteria. In so doing, the examiner must test the Veteran’s active motion, passive motion, and pain with weight-bearing and without weight-bearing, and provide the results of such range of motion testing. If any such measurements cannot be provided or are not necessary, the examiner should explain why. If it is not possible to provide a specific measurement without speculation, the examiner must state whether the need to speculate is due to a deficiency in the state of general medical knowledge (no one could respond given medical science and the known facts), a deficiency in the record (additional facts are required), or the examiner (does not have the knowledge or training). Andrew Mack Acting Veterans Law Judge Board of Veterans’ Appeals Attorney for the Board D. Lauritzen, Associate Counsel The Board’s decision in this case is binding only with respect to the instant matter decided. This decision is not precedential and does not establish VA policies or interpretations of general applicability. 38 C.F.R. § 20.1303.