The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for his service-connected left wrist carpal tunnel syndrome with osteoarthritis is being remanded due to the need for additional examination and treatment records.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has provided new information about increased or worsened symptoms, which requires further evaluation by VA medical personnel.
- Claimed conditions
- left wrist carpal tunnel syndrome with osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 20, 2014
- Citation
- 1422790
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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 has denied service connection for left hand, elbow, wrist carpal tunnel syndrome with osteoarthritis, and wrist scapholunate injury. The Veteran's current disabilities are not related to his active service.,The Board also denied service connection for right elbow and right hand osteoarthritis.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claimed disabilities were not incurred or aggravated during his periods of active duty service, including his periods of ACDUTRA and INACDUTRA in the Air Force Reserve from 1977 to 1993. The claims are therefore denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for additional examination and development of his claims.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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