The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining VA treatment records and scheduling examinations to assess the severity of his service-connected foot disabilities and back disability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has raised concerns about the accuracy of previous examination reports and the need for updated medical evidence. The Board finds that these issues require further investigation before a final decision can be made.
- Claimed conditions
- right heel spur syndrome, left heel spur syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 26, 2014
- Citation
- 1452319
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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: Denied
The Veteran's right foot disability, including heel spur syndrome, inferior calcaneal bursitis, and plantar fasciitis, was not rated higher than 20 percent due to the absence of pronounced symptoms such as marked pronation or inward displacement.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for increased ratings for his acquired psychiatric disorder, hypothyroidism, right heel spur syndrome, and hemorrhoids. The evidence did not meet the criteria for a higher rating under any applicable diagnostic codes.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including obtaining a new VA medical examination to assess the current nature and severity of his right and left heel spur syndrome.
- Whole decision: 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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