The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to insufficient opinions regarding the relationship between the Veteran's lower extremity numbness and his service-connected heart disability, as well as the potential relation to a shrapnel injury.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not address the Veteran's lay contentions about the onset of symptoms and failed to provide an opinion on whether the Veteran's lower extremity numbness is related to his service-connected heart disability or his in-service shrapnel injury.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity numbness, left lower extremity numbness
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2023
- Citation
- 23002830
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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.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of October 10, 2007, for the award of service connection for numbness in both upper and lower extremities.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted service connection for a right knee disability, left knee disability, right upper extremity numbness, left upper extremity numbness, right lower extremity numbness, left lower extremity numbness, erectile dysfunction, and toenail fungus.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has granted a 20% rating for the left ankle disability effective April 20, 2018. The Veteran's claims for increased ratings prior to April 20, 2018 and since that date are being remanded due to outstanding treatment records and inadequate retrospective opinions. Additionally, service connection for left lower extremity numbness and an acquired psychiatric disability is also being remanded.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for sinusitis and denied the claims for service connection for left knee disorder, right knee disorder, bilateral hearing loss, initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for allergic rhinitis, low back disorder, left lower extremity numbness, right lower extremity numbness, left upper extremity numbness, right upper extremity numbness, and tension headaches.
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