The Board has remanded the claims for additional development due to inadequate medical opinions and conflicting evidence regarding the Veteran's right ankle condition.
The deciding factor: Additional medical opinion is needed to reconcile diagnoses and etiological theories of record, including addressing whether current symptoms are related to service-connected conditions or other disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Mechanical Low Back Pain, Right Ankle Ulcer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 10, 2017
- Citation
- 1700675
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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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