Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities, including a low back disability, neck disability, and related secondary conditions, due to an inadequate VA examination.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary as the April 2023 VA examiner did not discuss the Veteran's lay statements and testimony of symptoms since service, which was required by the October 2022 JMR directives.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disability, neck disability, left leg disability (claimed as numbness), right leg disability (claimed as numbness), left hand disability (claimed as numbness), right hand disability (claimed as numbness)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2025
- Citation
- 25004013
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