The Board has decided to remand the claims for service connection due to inadequate examination and opinion regarding cold weather injuries. The Veteran's symptoms of sensitivity, numbness, tingling, and pain are being evaluated further.
The deciding factor: The examiner did not consider the Veteran’s statements about in-service exposure to cold weather conditions and his current symptomatology.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a cold weather injury of the bilateral upper extremities, residuals of a cold weather injury to the bilateral lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2020
- Citation
- 20078142
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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 has denied service connection for cold weather injury residuals affecting the Veteran's bilateral upper and lower extremities due to a lack of diagnosed conditions related to in-service exposure.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for bilateral hearing loss, cold weather injury to upper extremities, and cold weather injury to lower extremities due to additional development being required.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claim for residuals of a cold weather injury to the bilateral lower extremities is granted as his current disability is attributable to active service.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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