The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to incomplete compliance with previous remands and the need for additional medical opinions.
The deciding factor: Incomplete compliance with previous remand directives necessitates further action, including obtaining missing treatment records and providing updated medical opinions on etiology.
- Claimed conditions
- Prostate disability, Right elbow disability, Left arm disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 16, 2022
- Citation
- 22009276
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Denied
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- Denied
The Board has denied service connection for right elbow, left elbow, right wrist, and left wrist disabilities as there is no current evidence of these conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for psychiatric disability, hypertension, prostate disability, and headaches due to failure to make reasonable efforts to contact the Veteran for an informal hearing conference.
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