The Board remands the matters for further development to ensure compliance with prior remand instructions and to obtain a new examination that complies with specific testing requirements.
The deciding factor: The examination report did not include all required range-of-motion testing results, which is necessary to properly assess the Veteran's disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- ununited right scaphoid fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2025
- Citation
- 25006260
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 931 · Granted: 42% (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 has decided to remand the cases for further development and evaluation, including obtaining medical records and conducting a VA examination.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development and review, including obtaining private treatment records from Kaiser Permanente and scheduling a VA nerves examination to address whether the Veteran's right carpal tunnel syndrome is caused or aggravated by his service-connected ununited right scaphoid fracture. The examiner should also assess whether recent symptoms of right wrist fracture constitute functional ankylosis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete VA records and requests for private psychiatric treatment records. The Veteran's claims for service connection for anxiety and depression, as well as a rating in excess of 10 percent for residuals of an ununited right scaphoid fracture, are now pending.
- 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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