The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions as they are inextricably intertwined with pending lumbar and cervical spine issues.
The deciding factor: The issues of entitlement to service connection for a lumbar spine disability and a cervical spine disability could significantly impact the decision on all five issues noted above, as per Harris v. Derwinski, 1 Vet. App. 180 (1991).
- Claimed conditions
- Neurogenic erectile dysfunction, Right leg sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia, Left leg sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia, Left radial ulnar radicular pain and paresthesia, Right radial ulnar radicular pain and paresthesia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25041558
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 141 · Granted: 15% (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.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, an increased rating for generalized anxiety disorder with depression (GAD), and a compensable rating for pseudofolliculitis barbae. The claims for service connection for chronic left knee pain, chronic right knee pain, low back pain, neurogenic erectile dysfunction, onychomycosis, and pain and dysfunction of the right shoulder were remanded.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the Veteran's appeals for hearing loss, anxiety disorder, and adjustment disorder with anxiety. Service connection was granted for acquired psychiatric disorders secondary to degenerative disc disease and neurogenic erectile dysfunction secondary to degenerative disc disease. SMC based on loss of use of a creative organ was granted.
- Denied
The Board denied separate evaluations for right and left lower extremity neurologic disabilities, bladder impairment, bowel impairment, and erectile dysfunction as manifestations of the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disorder.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
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