Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a VA examination and to obtain Federal prison medical records.
The deciding factor: The AOJ has not substantially complied with prior remand directives due to unresponsive attempts to schedule an examination and failure to request records from the Bureau of Prisons.
- Claimed conditions
- low back strain with spondylosis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2025
- Citation
- 25013006
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