The Board has remanded the veteran's claims for further development, including addressing his claim of service connection for bilateral osteoarthritis of the shoulders as secondary to a service-connected cervical fusion with degenerative joint disease. The TDIU claim is also deferred pending resolution of the secondary service connection issue.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's claims are inextricably intertwined and must be remanded for further development, including addressing the secondary service connection claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral osteoarthritis of the shoulders
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 12, 2008
- Citation
- 0808401
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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 found that the Veteran's current bilateral shoulder disability, including osteoarthritis of the shoulders, is not causally or etiologically related to service and denied his claim for service connection.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral osteoarthritis of the shoulders is being remanded due to the need for additional medical records and further development.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
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