The Board has remanded the case for further development, including additional examinations and a medical opinion regarding the Veteran's lumbar spine disability. The appeal now includes a claim for TDIU.
The deciding factor: Further examination is needed to determine if there are any neurological manifestations of the service-connected lumbar spine disability that should be separately rated.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative joint disease, lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 30, 2010
- Citation
- 1011823
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a higher rating for the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability and granted TDIU from February 21, 2018.
- Granted
The Board has determined that new and relevant evidence has been received to warrant the readjudication of your claims for service connection for degenerative joint disease, lumbar spine, shin splints, and diabetes mellitus. Your tailbone condition is denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for service connection due to inadequate rationale in the March 2020 VA examination and failure to consider the Veteran's lay statements regarding his symptoms.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine is aggravated by his service-connected right hip disability, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
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