The Board has remanded the claims for additional development due to new VA treatment records and ongoing treatment.
The deciding factor: New VA treatment records have been added to the file, which may affect the rating determination.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatica), left lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatica)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 3, 2023
- Citation
- 23059564
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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: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for initial ratings in excess of 10 percent for right and left lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatica) as the evidence did not support moderate incomplete paralysis at any time during the appeal period.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and a skin disability but granted service connection for left lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatica) as secondary to service-connected lumbar strain and an initial 10 percent disability rating for essential tremors.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for PTSD with TBI and vertigo, headaches, lumbosacral strain, sciatica (both sides), shoulder rotator cuff tendonitis (both sides), tinnitus, and bilateral varicocele and hydrocele are granted effective April 26, 2022.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded several service connection claims due to the need for VA examinations and medical nexus opinions, including those related to sinusitis, bilateral hearing loss, low back condition, right lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatica), residuals of a shoulder injury, and migraine headaches. The claims are being returned for further evaluation.
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