The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinion regarding the Veteran's claimed conditions and their relation to service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not provide an adequate rationale for the offered medical opinions, particularly regarding the relationship between the Veteran’s diagnosed condition (degenerative disease of bilateral AC joints) and service.
- Claimed conditions
- muscle and joint pain, bone mass loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 8, 2020
- Citation
- 20039002
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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).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service connection claim for muscle and joint pain, to include fibromyalgia, is granted as the condition is presumptively related to his active service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for a chronic disability manifested by muscle and joint pain, other than his service-connected CFS, is remanded due to the need for further development including a TERA memorandum and VA examination.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal, requesting higher-level review of the February 2025 rating decision. The Board dismissed the appeal as a result.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection were denied due to lack of evidence supporting the claimed conditions.,Special monthly compensation on a statutory housebound basis was granted for the period from December 3, 2012 through June 30, 2016.
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