The Veteran's appeal is being remanded to obtain missing records and to provide a VA examination for the claimed disability. The issues of service connection for loss of use of hands are also being remanded.
The deciding factor: Missing records need to be obtained, and an opinion regarding the etiology of the claimed disability needs to be provided.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of use of hands
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 3, 2012
- Citation
- 1234342
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeal as it was improperly docketed due to concurrent reviews of the same issue, and the benefits sought were granted in a previous decision.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases due to a need for a medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's claimed conditions are etiologically related to service, including an in-service motor vehicle accident.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's only service-connected disability is bilateral hearing loss. The other claimed conditions are not related to his hearing loss and do not meet the criteria for basic eligibility for financial assistance for automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment, or for adaptive equipment only.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for compensation benefits under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for quadriparesis, to include loss of use of hands and loss of control of bowels, as the proximate cause of the disability was not due to carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of the Department in furnishing the surgical treatment.
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