The Board has remanded the claim for a left calf disability due to insufficient evidence in the record regarding its relationship to service. The Veteran's reports of ongoing symptoms following active duty are considered, but an additional examination may be necessary.
The deciding factor: The VA clinician provided an inadequate opinion without considering the Veteran's reported continuity of symptoms and dismissing her statements solely based on lack of contemporaneous documentation in treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- left calf disability, left leg venous incompetency
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 28, 2024
- Citation
- 24013368
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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
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
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