The veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development of his claims, including seeking records from the United States Army's medical facilities and obtaining information about all treatment he has received.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to fully evaluate the veteran's claims due to incomplete medical history provided by the veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic back disorder, chronic left foot injury residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 11, 2003
- Citation
- 0323487
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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.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for schizo-affective disorder, depressed type and a chronic back disorder due to additional development of medical records and obtaining opinions from VA evaluators.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for a back disorder is remanded due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including the failure to seek records of alleged assaults by VA personnel and the inadequacy of the VA examination opinion.
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