The Board has ordered additional development to obtain medical records from the Veteran's period of active service and to provide her with VA examinations to determine if she is entitled to service connection for polyarthralgia, claimed as arthritis or joint pain, and asthma.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to substantiate the Veteran's claims for service connection due to a lack of complete records from her period of active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- polyarthralgia, arthritis, joint pain, asthma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 1, 2010
- Citation
- 1007635
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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.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
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