The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining outstanding VA treatment records and clarifying the Veteran's reports of cortisone shots in his right foot.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to fully evaluate the Veteran's claim, particularly regarding recent treatment and potential cortisone injections.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative changes of the right foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 30, 2012
- Citation
- 1215491
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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 conditions, including back pain, heart condition, hypertension, bilateral diabetic peripheral neuropathy of the feet, and several musculoskeletal disabilities. The Board found that there was no evidence to support an in-service onset or aggravation of these conditions.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for degenerative changes of the right foot and melanoma of the back, finding no evidence to support a link between these conditions and his military service.
- Denied
The Veteran's service connection claim for bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome was granted. However, his initial compensable rating claim for degenerative changes of the right foot was denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for further development, including an orthopedic and neurological examination to distinguish symptoms associated with a right foot neuroma from those of his service-connected pes planus and degenerative changes of the right foot.
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