The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient opinions regarding secondary service connection theories and lack of proper compliance with previous remands.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional medical opinions addressing all potential theories of entitlement, including those related to GERD, low testosterone, and a low back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- thoracic pain, compression fractures
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 2, 2022
- Citation
- 22011784
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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 various conditions, including headaches, BCC, carpal tunnel, CFS, fibromyalgia, right ear hearing loss, lipoma, OSA, thoracic pain, neck pain, and peripheral neuropathy in the left and right lower extremities, as there was no medical evidence linking these conditions to the Veteran's military service.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for bone pain, including as due to bone density loss related to osteoporosis and osteopenia or related to arthritis and degenerative disc disease. The VA examiners concluded that these conditions did not clearly pre-exist service, were not incurred in service, and are not aggravated by service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further examination and opinion regarding the Veteran's bone pain disability due to bone density loss, including osteoporosis and osteopenia. The examiner is asked to clarify whether certain diagnoses are related to service and provide an opinion on their etiology.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to an inaccurate medical history in a previous opinion, and needs further development to determine if the Veteran's post-service compression fractures are related to service.
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