The Veteran is seeking service connection for right radiculopathy that he claims is secondary to his service-connected lumbar paravertebral myositis. The case has been remanded due to the need for translations of some documents.
The deciding factor: The claim requires additional evidence in the form of English translations of certain Spanish-language documents.
- Claimed conditions
- right radiculopathy, lumbar paravertebral myositis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 26, 2011
- Citation
- 1103387
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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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- Dismissed
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