The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including a bone scan and an examination to determine if the Veteran's current calf disability is related to service or secondary to his service-connected bilateral pes planus.
The deciding factor: The examiner was unable to provide the requested opinion due to lack of information from the Veteran and unavailability for follow-up testing.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral calf disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2012
- Citation
- 1222897
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims of service connection for a bilateral calf disability, claimed as psoriatic arthritis, and an initial compensable rating for posttraumatic headaches are remanded. The claim for an increased rating for TBI is also remanded due to its inextricability with the other two claims.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for a new VA examination to determine if any currently diagnosed bilateral calf disability is related to service, and whether it is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's current calf pain is related to his knee or back disabilities.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's bilateral calf disability was not incurred in service and is not caused or aggravated by his service-connected pes planus. The criteria for entitlement to TDIU were also not met.
- Granted
The Veteran's current bilateral calf pain is causally related to an injury he suffered in service, and the Board finds that he meets the criteria for service connection.
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