The Board has remanded the claim of service connection for peripheral neuropathy of the hands, to include as secondary to service-connected ischemic heart disease due to further development being needed.
The deciding factor: Further development is required to determine if the Veteran's peripheral neuropathy is related to his active duty service or to his service-connected ischemic heart disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral neuropathy of the hands
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2020
- Citation
- 20007837
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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.
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