The Board has remanded the claim for additional development due to a need for an addendum medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's thoracic outlet syndrome is related to her service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner needs to provide an opinion on whether the Veteran's diagnosed thoracic outlet syndrome had its onset during any of her active duty service periods or is otherwise related to her active duty service periods, and if it was clearly and unmistakably not aggravated by her service-connected lumbosacral/thoracic strain with scoliosis.
- Claimed conditions
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2022
- Citation
- 22000018
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,451 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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
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