The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for cervical fibrositis and remanded both the original claim and the secondary claim for pain and numbness of the bilateral upper extremities. The case is now pending further examination and analysis.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the last denial supports reopening the claim, but more information is needed to determine if there are separate diagnoses or service connections.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical fibrositis, pain and numbness of the bilateral upper extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 10, 2024
- Citation
- 24001695
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,913 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for a cervical spine condition and pain and numbness of the bilateral upper extremities as secondary to each other, due to unaddressed questions in previous opinions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded several issues related to service connection and effective dates for various conditions, including left lower extremity radiculopathy, adjustment disorder with depression and anxiety, circinate balanitis, gonorrhea, herpes, conjunctivitis, and atrial fibrillation.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded several issues related to the Veteran's claims, including service connection for various conditions and secondary service connection. The main issue is that the claim for cervical fibrositis was previously denied but new evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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