The Board finds that additional development is necessary before a decision can be rendered with respect to the Veteran's claim for entitlement to service connection for benign essential tremors.
The deciding factor: A new VA examination is needed so that a competent medical professional can opine as to the relationship between the Veteran's current benign essential tremors and any incident of active duty service, including exposure to in-service shelling concussions.
- Claimed conditions
- benign essential tremors
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2009
- Citation
- 0908467
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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.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability (adjustment disorder and alcohol use disorder) and unspecified neurocognitive disorder and benign essential tremors (claimed as Parkinson's Disease).
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for benign essential tremors, including spasmodic torticollis, is being remanded due to a duty to assist error. The examiner must determine if the condition likely began during service or is related to toxic exposure risk activity (TERA) experienced in service.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for benign essential tremors and chronic kidney disease, finding that the conditions did not begin within one year of separation from active duty or were not related to service exposure.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for tremors as there is no evidence linking the condition to active duty service.
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