The Board has remanded the cases due to incomplete records and requests for authorization of private medical records.
The deciding factor: Incomplete records prevented full adjudication, necessitating further development.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hand condition, bilateral wrist condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 18, 2021
- Citation
- 21008773
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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.
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- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew their appeal of the service connection for a bilateral wrist condition before the decision was made.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, sleep apnea, bilateral wrist condition, and right knee condition have been dismissed due to the Veteran's death.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request to revise a January 2015 rating decision that granted service connection for bilateral wrist condition with an effective date of October 13, 2011, due to lack of evidence showing new and relevant STRs were associated with his claims file after the original denial in March 1999.
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