The Board has remanded the case for further development to obtain additional medical records and clarify whether the Veteran is seeking service connection on a secondary basis due to his service-connected thoracolumbar spine disability.
The deciding factor: Clarification from the Veteran regarding the theory of entitlement is needed before the Board can consider the merits of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- upper back/neck disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2013
- Citation
- 1302624
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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 Board remands the claims for an upper back/neck disability, migraine headaches, and a right wrist disability to address deficiencies in the evidence.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of service connection for multiple disabilities, including knee and back conditions, to obtain additional evidence.
- Denied
The Board has denied service connection for various knee, back, neck, shoulder, and foot disabilities due to a lack of evidence linking these conditions to service.
- Denied
The Veteran's upper back/neck and low back disabilities were denied as they are not related to service.,Service connection for the Veteran's claimed disabilities was denied because there is no evidence of a nexus between his current conditions and his military service.
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