The Board has remanded the claims for further development due to insufficient medical opinions and incomplete records. The Veteran's service connection claims are pending.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the provided medical opinions were inadequate and did not address the Veteran’s lay contentions regarding her back pain in service, leading to a need for additional examination and opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine (low back) disability, psychiatric disorder, including anxiety disorder, mood disorder, polysubstance abuse, bipolar disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep disorder, to include as due to an undiagnosed illness due to service in Southwest Asia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 4, 2020
- Citation
- 20038548
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection of a lumbar spine disability, finding that there was no evidence of arthritis or other chronic disease manifesting within one year after separation from service and that the current low back disability did not have its onset in service.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's explicit withdrawal of his claims for increased ratings and service connection, with full understanding of the consequences.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various disabilities, including cervical spine, lumbar spine, left shoulder, right shoulder, left knee, right knee, plantar fasciitis, and sleep disorder, as the evidence did not support a finding of current disabilities or functional impairment affecting earning capacity.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for additional development due to incomplete records and potential exposure verification issues.
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