The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the award of service connection and compensation for left lower extremity femoral nerve radiculopathy is remanded. The matter is also remanded to determine when left femoral nerve pathology was first shown, distinguishing it from symptoms attributable to left sciatic nerve involvement.
The deciding factor: The decision requires further medical opinion regarding the timing of the onset and differentiation between symptoms related to the left femoral nerve and those related to the left sciatic nerve.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity sciatic nerve neuropathy, left lower extremity femoral nerve radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19108944
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that there are pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors in the Veteran's claims for increased ratings for bilateral lower extremity femoral nerve radiculopathy, and thus remands the case to obtain addendum medical opinions.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for various rating and service connection claims due to the Veteran's death.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for increased disability ratings for his bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy disabilities have been dismissed due to the Veteran's withdrawal of the appeal.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for increased disability ratings in various lower extremity radiculopathy conditions have been dismissed due to the Veteran's withdrawal of his appeal.
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