The Board remands the matter for further development, including obtaining additional medical evidence and service records.
The deciding factor: Remand is required due to lack of substantial compliance with previous remand directives.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis and spinal stenosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 23, 2025
- Citation
- 25005528
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,287 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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 claims for further development to ensure compliance with its duty to assist, specifically regarding the adequacy of VA examinations and obtaining a retrospective medical opinion.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis and spinal stenosis to ensure that the AOJ makes reasonable attempts to obtain missing reserve treatment records and in-service hospital records.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 40% rating for lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis and spinal stenosis, but denied an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for higher ratings for lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis and spinal stenosis, left lower extremity radiculopathy (femoral nerve), right lower extremity radiculopathy (femoral nerve), left lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatic nerve), and right lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatic nerve) has been dismissed as the issues have already been adjudicated in a separate Board decision.,The Veteran's appeal for earlier effective dates for service connection of left and right lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatic nerve) associated with lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis and spinal stenosis has also been dismissed.
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