The Board is remanding the case to further develop evidence regarding the Veteran's need for aid and attendance or housebound status due to his service-connected left forearm disability, as well as any non-service-connected disabilities. The decision will be reconsidered based on this additional information.
The deciding factor: The case requires a thorough evaluation of all disabilities, both service-connected and non-service-connected, to determine if the Veteran is in need of regular aid and attendance or housebound due to his left forearm disability alone.
- Claimed conditions
- left forearm disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2010
- Citation
- 1042437
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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 an upper respiratory disability and a left forearm disability, finding that the Veteran's assertions of continuous symptoms since service were not credible due to the absence of contemporaneous medical notation. The Board also found no causal relationship between the in-service events and the current disabilities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for an upper respiratory disability and a left forearm disability for additional medical opinions.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a left forearm disability, finding that there is no evidence of a separate, distinct left forearm disability related to his active-duty service.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left forearm and left knee disabilities, finding no current disability and insufficient evidence to establish a link between any in-service injury or disease and the claimed conditions.
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