The Board remands the claims for increased initial evaluations of right and left upper extremity essential tremors due to an inadequate VA examination.
The deciding factor: The examiner's report did not fully address the Veteran's functional impairments caused by his essential tremors, making it impossible to make a fully informed decision on this issue.
- Claimed conditions
- right upper extremity essential tremors, left upper extremity essential tremors
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25052301
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,081 · Granted: 38% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's service connection claims for bilateral pes planus, right and left upper extremity essential tremors, and unspecified depressive disorder with mild anxious distress due to missing service treatment records.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for bilateral upper extremity essential tremors, as no claim was received prior to March 16, 2023.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right upper extremity essential tremors as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The other claims were remanded for further development.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for the veteran's bilateral upper and lower extremity essential tremors, finding that the evidence did not support a link to active service.
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