The Veteran is seeking service connection for a right humeral head lesion that he believes is secondary to his already service-connected thoracic outlet syndrome due to whiplash injury. The case has been remanded for additional development, including scheduling the Veteran for a Travel Board hearing.
The deciding factor: The appeal requires further development and review by scheduling the Veteran for a hearing before the Board of Veterans' Appeals.
- Claimed conditions
- right humeral head lesion
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 14, 2010
- Citation
- 1022027
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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.
- Granted
The Board has vacated the previous decision and granted service connection for right humeral head lesion as secondary to service connected thoracic outlet syndrome due to whiplash injury.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran seeks service connection for a right humeral head lesion, which he contends is related to his service-connected thoracic outlet syndrome. The Board has determined that further development is needed to address the onset of the condition and its relationship to other service-connected disabilities.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
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