The Board has remanded the claims for additional development due to inadequate explanation of the duty to assist and potential overlap between service-connected right elbow disability and non-service-connected CIDP and IBM.
The deciding factor: The VA examination did not sufficiently differentiate the effects of the service-connected right elbow disability from the non-service-connected CIDP and IBM disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Elbow Osteoarthritis, CIDP (Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy), Inclusion-body Myositis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2022
- Citation
- 22059048
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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.
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