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
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2010
- Citation
- 1004173
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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
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for revising the May 2013 rating decision regarding initial, 10 percent disability ratings for left and right shoulder disabilities due to CUE is dismissed because it is legally precluded by the doctrine of res judicata.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for right shoulder and left shoulder disorders, finding that the Veteran's current diagnoses are related to his military service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings for right and left shoulder disabilities were denied because she failed to report for scheduled VA examinations without good cause.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's attempts to appeal the denial of service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder and right shoulder bursitis were dismissed because they were not filed within one year of the rating decision, and no good cause was shown for the delay.
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