The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including a new VA examination to assess the severity of her service-connected back and foot disabilities. The AOJ will then re-adjudicate the claims.
The deciding factor: The current rating decisions are incomplete due to lack of proper range of motion testing in the low back disability case and insufficient information provided for rating under diagnostic codes for feet conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic lumbar myofascial pain with degenerative changes, bilateral foot disabilities including plantar fasciitis, metatarsalgia, and arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 12, 2017
- Citation
- 1745449
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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's chronic lumbar myofascial pain with degenerative changes was granted a rating of 40 percent from May 17, 2018 through November 17, 2019 and in excess of 40 percent since November 18, 2019. The Veteran's right knee and left knee conditions were not rated higher.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining VA treatment records from April 2016 to the present. The case will be returned to the Board for further review.
- 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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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