The Board has remanded the case due to conflicting medical opinions regarding a right lower extremity nerve disorder. A new VA examination is needed to determine if this condition was caused by service and its current status.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions are conflicting, necessitating further evaluation to establish whether the Veteran's current nerve disorder is related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Right lower extremity nerve disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19132655
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Decisions by this judge: 2,242 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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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