The Board remands the matters of entitlement to an initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for left and right lower extremity shin splints due to the need for additional development, including obtaining relevant private treatment records and a more detailed medical opinion.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain relevant private treatment records and a well-reasoned medical opinion regarding the nature and severity of the Veteran's bilateral shin splints.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity shin splints, right lower extremity shin splints
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 6, 2024
- Citation
- 24032696
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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for left shoulder, right shoulder, left knee, right knee, and left elbow disabilities but denied service connection for left ankle, right ankle, penile condition, sinusitis, left lower extremity shin splints, right lower extremity shin splints, and left elbow disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for all claimed conditions as there was no evidence of a current disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for cervical strain, left hand tendinopathy with tenosynovitis, right hand tendinopathy with tenosynovitis, left hip, snapping hip syndrome, right hip condition, left shoulder bicipital tendonitis with rotator cuff tendonitis, right shoulder bicipital tendonitis with rotator cuff tendonitis, left lower extremity shin splints, and tension headaches for readjudication due to new and relevant evidence received since the January 2022 rating decision.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for other specified trauma and stressor related disorder with major depressive disorder, fatigue, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), left lower extremity shin splints, and right lower extremity shin splints.
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