The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate development of the medical evidence, and the claim is pending further review.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner needs to provide a fully reasoned explanation for their response based on all available evidence, including the Veteran's testimony and history reported in her examination.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness in the extremities
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 5, 2013
- Citation
- 1328398
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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
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's request to reopen his previously disallowed claim of entitlement to service connection for diffuse muscle and joint pain and numbness in the extremities, to include as due to an undiagnosed illness.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for multiple disabilities claimed as due to herbicide exposure, finding that the veteran's conditions are not related to his military service or presumed exposure.
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