The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to inconsistencies in the examination findings and the need for additional medical records. The examiner will be asked to provide an addendum opinion regarding whether the claimed conditions are related to service or if they represent separate diagnoses.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner needs to reconcile the internal inconsistency between the reported symptoms of chronic cough and left calf pain with the diagnosed GERD and left knee PFS, and determine their relationship to service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic bronchitis/cough, left calf pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 23, 2015
- Citation
- 1526562
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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 Veteran's right calf, left calf, and muscle pain disabilities are granted as service connected. The Board has also remanded the issue of service connection for a left knee disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's skin condition, diagnosed as tinea cruris, recurrent, of the bilateral groin and thighs and tinea corporis of the right leg, had onset in service. The remaining issues on appeal are remanded for further development.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed disabilities, including left calf pain, tarsal tunnel syndrome, and L5-S1 nerve root irritation, are not related to his active service.
- 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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