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
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