The Board remands the matters for further development, specifically to obtain the Veteran's complete VA treatment records since February 2017.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to ensure compliance with the Court's order and to obtain relevant medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- thoracolumbar spine intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 18, 2025
- Citation
- 25008155
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,677 · Granted: 26% (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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of January 3, 2019, for the grant of service connection for a back disability but remanded the issue of entitlement to an initial rating in excess of 20 percent for the same.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal for increased ratings was dismissed because the veteran requested to withdraw it.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the claim as moot because the Veteran's thoracolumbar disability, including a C7-T1 fusion, was granted service connection in an April 2022 rating decision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that further development is needed to address whether a higher alternate rating is warranted for the service connected lumbar spine based upon the Formula for Rating IVDS Based on Incapacitating Episodes from November 14, 2007 to March 5, 2008. The remaining issues are also remanded.
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