The Board has remanded the Veteran's claim for service connection for cervical mycocytes, claimed as neck injury, due to a lack of evidence showing a relationship between his current disability and an in-service injury. The lumbosacral strain with disk protrusion is not considered incurred or aggravated by active service.
The deciding factor: The available service treatment records are unavailable, and there is no credible evidence that the Veteran's claimed disabilities were incurred during service.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical mycocytes, lumbosacral strain with disk protrusion, peripheral neuropathy, upper left extremity
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 6, 2010
- Citation
- 1037734
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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
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded several issues related to the Veteran's service connection claims, including for right hip disability, left hip disability, peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease, cervical degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, and other conditions. The VA is instructed to obtain the Veteran's SSA records.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's peripheral neuropathy, kidney disorder, and hypertension are all service-connected as secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
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