The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral upper and lower extremity nerve disorders to obtain an addendum opinion regarding their relationship to the Veteran's service-connected ulcerative colitis and lumbar spine disability.
The deciding factor: The rationale is inadequate as it does not consider whether the Veteran's nerve disorders were aggravated by the medication used to treat his UC or caused by his lumbar spine disability.
- Claimed conditions
- left upper extremity nerve disorder, right upper extremity nerve disorder, left lower extremity nerve disorder, right lower extremity nerve disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25047179
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Decisions by this judge: 869 · 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
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- Partly granted
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