The Board has remanded both issues for further development and consideration, including obtaining additional medical records and scheduling a VA examination.
The deciding factor: The Court instructed the Board to consider whether all of the Veteran's symptoms combine to demonstrate objective evidence of a chronic multisymptom illness that has no known diagnosis. The Board must also address how service connection is established when there is some evidence indicating a preexisting disability.
- Claimed conditions
- hand twitching, cramps, tremor, cardiovascular signs and symptoms
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 22, 2010
- Citation
- 1010742
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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 a neck condition and tremor as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions began during active service or are otherwise related to an in-service injury, event, or disease.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for tremor, finding that it is at least as likely as not causally related to toxic exposure risk activity during the Veteran's service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claims for service connection must be remanded again due to insufficient information regarding his in-service exposure to herbicide agents and further development is needed for examinations related to his claimed disabilities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to two pre-decisional duty to assist errors, requiring a new examination and opinion regarding the Veteran's current disability causing tremors and weakness.
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