The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claim of service connection for a spine/back disability due to insufficient clarification from the examiner regarding whether the congenital condition is a disease or defect, and if it arose during active duty.
The deciding factor: The Board found that more development was necessary to clarify the nature of the congenital condition and its relationship to service.
- Claimed conditions
- back/spine disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 30, 2020
- Citation
- 20076002
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for right shoulder, left shoulder, neck/cervical spine, and back/spine disabilities. The Veteran's STRs were unremarkable for complaints of these conditions.,Service connection was not granted as the earliest clinical evidence of current symptoms is more than a decade after separation from service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection are being remanded due to the need for additional examinations and development of evidence. The issues include his back/spine disability, depression, erectile dysfunction, memory loss, dizziness/unbalance disability, bilateral upper extremity disabilities, bilateral lower extremity disabilities, bilateral knee arthralgia, and tinnitus.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to the unavailability of his service treatment records and the need for further medical examination.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claimed left knee, back/spine, rashes/boils, and jaw disabilities were not incurred in or aggravated by active service. The claims are therefore denied.
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