The Veteran's claim for service connection for a right upper extremity disability, including right cubital tunnel syndrome, is being remanded due to the need for additional medical examination and development of records.
The deciding factor: The current VA examination opinion is inadequate as it does not address private treatment records or VA treatment records that may be relevant to the Veteran's claim.
- Claimed conditions
- right cubital tunnel syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 6, 2016
- Citation
- 1634785
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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.
- Granted
The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability from January 1, 2017 to October 27, 2017 due to service-connected disabilities. The temporary total evaluation for convalescence was denied.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 40 percent for right cubital tunnel syndrome and brachial neuritis from July 6, 2021.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a rating of 20 percent for left cubital tunnel syndrome and 30 percent for right cubital tunnel syndrome, but remanded the claim for service connection for lumbosacral strain.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the service connection claims for various conditions due to outstanding VA and SSA records and a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error.
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