The Board has decided to remand the case for further development and consideration, including obtaining additional medical opinions regarding whether the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is related to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: Further medical opinion is needed to determine if the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is caused or related to his service-connected disabilities (adductors myositis and left/adductors tenosynovitis).
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety features
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 14, 2015
- Citation
- 1552209
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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 denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, finding no medical relationship between his current psychiatric conditions and either his service or his service-connected adductors myositis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a request for a videoconference hearing and unclear appeal scope. The Veteran's claims for service connection are pending.
- Denied
The Board found that the preponderance of evidence does not support a medical relationship between the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability and his military service or his service-connected adductors myositis, left/adductors tenosynovitis.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include as secondary to service-connected adductors myositis and left/adductors tenosynovitis.
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