The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to the need for additional medical records and consideration of a separate disability rating for hyperesthesia of the right lower extremity from cutaneous nerve injury.
The deciding factor: Additional treatment records are needed to fully assess the Veteran's current condition, including any hyperesthesia related to his service-connected disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- right thigh disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 14, 2011
- Citation
- 1145676
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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 the Veteran's claims for service connection for various disabilities, finding that there was no credible evidence linking these conditions to his military service and concluding that any additional disability was not caused by VA care.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for initial compensable disability ratings for right and left hip and thigh disabilities due to inadequate VA examination.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a back disability and a right thigh disability, finding that the evidence did not support a causal relationship between the claimed conditions and the Veteran's military service.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for left, right shoulder, right thumb, and right thigh disabilities as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were related to the Veteran's active service.
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