The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to the need for additional VA treatment records and consideration of a claim for total disability based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: VA treatment records are missing, which may affect the evaluation of the Veteran's conditions. The TDIU claim must be considered as part of her increased rating claims.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder bursitis, lumbosacral myositis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2010
- Citation
- 1004173
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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 bursitis affecting the Veteran's bilateral ankles, elbows, hips, shoulders, and wrists as there was no evidence of a current disability during the pendency of the appeal.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, a sleep condition, left shoulder bursitis, left wrist CTS, right wrist CTS, upper back condition, lower back condition, and right shoulder bursitis as there was no evidence of current disability or nexus to military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for additional evidentiary development, including readjudication of the issues on appeal and AOJ review of newly obtained evidence.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for left ankle, left knee, and right shoulder bursitis conditions to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
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