The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including scheduling a VA examination and obtaining medical records.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need to provide adequate VCAA notice and obtain all relevant medical records before making a determination on service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- nerve damage to the neck
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 26, 2008
- Citation
- 0833159
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran has withdrawn his appeals regarding the issues of service connection for residuals of a head trauma to the right side of the head, a neck condition secondary to that injury, and nerve damage to the neck.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that additional evidentiary development is necessary prior to the adjudication of the Veteran’s claims on this current appeal. The issues of service connection for residuals of head trauma, neck condition, nerve damage to the neck, and an acquired psychiatric disorder are remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for nerve damage to the neck and depressive disorder as secondary to his service-connected disabilities. The evidence did not support a current diagnosis of either condition, nor was there sufficient medical opinion linking these conditions to his service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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