The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including a search for service records and a VA examination to determine if any current neck or shoulder disability is related to service.
The deciding factor: The veteran's claims are being remanded due to incomplete records and need for further medical evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of left arm and shoulder injury, residuals of neck injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0632210
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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.
- Partly granted
The veteran's claim for service connection for hypertension was granted under the PACT Act. Other claims were remanded for further review.
- Denied
The Board denied the service connection claim for residuals of back or neck injury as new and material evidence was not received to reopen the previously denied claim.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for residuals of right clavicle injury and residuals of neck injury, finding no evidence linking these conditions to the veteran's active service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The appeal is being remanded for additional development to provide a medical examination and/or opinion regarding the veteran's claims of service connection for chronic headache disability and residuals of neck injury.
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