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
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 1, 2010
- Citation
- 1007635
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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: Denied
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- Whole decision: Partly granted
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- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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