The Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral lower extremity disorder, secondary to his service-connected degenerative disc disease and multilevel spondylosis of the lumbosacral spine is being remanded due to the need for additional medical examination.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner needs to determine if the Veteran's current lower extremity disorders are caused or aggravated by his service-connected low back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease and multilevel spondylosis of the lumbosacral spine, Bilateral lower extremity disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 22, 2014
- Citation
- 1432718
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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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