The Board has decided that additional evidence is needed and a remand for further examination of the veteran's right shoulder disability is required.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner needs to assess the current severity of the veteran's service-connected right shoulder disability, including any limitation of motion and whether there is arthritis present.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a gunshot wound to the right shoulder, Muscle Group II, osteoarthritis of the right shoulder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 22, 2006
- Citation
- 0626133
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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.
- Dismissed
The appeal for an earlier effective date for residuals of a right shoulder injury with osteoarthritis was dismissed because the issue was not adjudicated in the September 2022 rating decision.
- Denied
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- Denied
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- Granted
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