The Board has remanded the case due to the need for additional records and consideration of an extraschedular rating.
The deciding factor: The veteran's testimony raised questions about employment impact, necessitating further investigation into potential extraschedular considerations.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic costochondritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2006
- Citation
- 0633312
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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 Board denied a rating in excess of 20 percent for chronic costochondritis and remanded the issue of entitlement to a rating in excess of 30 percent for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with antral gastritis from November 8, 2016.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for a higher rating for chronic costochondritis, finding that her symptoms more closely align with a moderate disability rather than a moderately severe or severe one.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, effective from the date of the February 2025 rating decision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a medical examination to determine if the Veteran's current neck strain is related to his in-service activities.
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