The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to incomplete or insufficient medical opinions regarding his claimed conditions and their relationship to his active duty service. The spine examination should be conducted to determine whether any diagnosed disorders are related etiologically to the Veteran's active duty service and/or his service-connected thoracolumbar spine degenerative disc disease, and also, the current severity of the symptoms and manifestations associated with his thoracolumbar spine degenerative disc disease.
The deciding factor: Incomplete or insufficient medical opinions regarding the relationship between the Veteran's claimed conditions and their relationship to his active duty service are noted. The spine examination is needed to address these issues.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical spine degenerative disc disease, genitourinary disorder (penile pain), neurological disorder in the lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19143246
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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