The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities to allow VA to obtain additional evidence, including private treatment records and line of duty determinations.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to missing evidence regarding the Veteran's injuries during active duty for training and inactive duty for training or active duty, as well as to obtain authorization and request private treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- traumatic brain injury, dry skin, headache disability (claimed as migraines), eye disability (claimed as myopia), pseudofolliculitis barbae (claimed as shaving bumps), respiratory disability (claimed as asthma), rhinitis, sinusitis, sleep apnea, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, cervical strain with arthritis, right shoulder disability, neurological damage of the right upper extremity, neurological damage of the left upper extremity, heart disability, hypertension (claimed as high blood pressure), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), (residual(s) of) a pulled groin, erectile dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome, right hip and thigh disability, left hip and thigh disability, neurological damage of the right lower extremity, neurological damage of the left lower extremity, right ankle disability, left ankle disability, disability of the right Achilles, disability of the left Achilles
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25018419
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 575 · Granted: 29% (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 Veteran's right shoulder disability and migraines/chronic headaches are remanded for additional development due to insufficient opinions on the etiology of her conditions.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for diabetes mellitus type II with erectile dysfunction was denied as the evidence did not show that he had been diagnosed and manifested to at least a 10 percent disability rating on or prior to May 8, 2001.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has expanded the scope of the claim to include any mental health disorder raised by the record and has remanded for additional development regarding service connection for left leg, ankle, and psychiatric disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for sleep apnea, finding that there was no evidence of a chronic disease manifesting within one year after service and concluding that the current disability is not related to his in-service deviated septum.
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