The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for a left thumb disorder based on new and material evidence. However, further development is needed before deciding the merits of the claim.
The deciding factor: Additional medical records are required to determine if the veteran's current left thumb disorder is related to his in-service injury.
- Claimed conditions
- left thumb disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 25, 2006
- Citation
- 0633059
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for left shoulder, left wrist, right wrist, left thumb, and right thumb disorders due to the lack of evidence showing current disabilities. The appeal for a right eye vision disorder was dismissed as untimely.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues for further development, specifically to obtain treatment records from VISTA imaging and ensure compliance with previous remand directives.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues for further development, specifically to obtain and associate with the claims file all treatment records regarding the Veteran scanned into VISTA.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various conditions and an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, finding no evidence of a current disability or in-service incurrence.
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