The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including another VA examination to address the relationship between his service-connected residuals of a fracture and any diagnosed right arm/shoulder disability.
The deciding factor: The examiner did not provide sufficient rationale for their opinion regarding the relationship between the service-connected condition and the claimed disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Right arm/shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 6, 2011
- Citation
- 1144555
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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.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's application to reopen the claim for service connection for a right shoulder disorder was granted. The claims for left arm/shoulder and right arm/shoulder disabilities were denied, with the latter being remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a low back disability, left leg disability (to include as secondary to a low back disability), and right arm/shoulder disability due to the lack of evidence linking these conditions to active military service.
- Denied
The Board finds that the Veteran's current right arm/shoulder disability was not incurred in service and is not caused or aggravated by a service-connected disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including a VA examination to evaluate his claim for a right arm/shoulder disability and determine its relationship to his service-connected residuals of a fracture of the right middle finger; index finger; ring finger; and hand condition, other than the residuals of fractured fingers.
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