Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for further development to correct pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: Records related to treatment and medications prescribed for the Veteran's right foot, hip, and back are missing from the record, necessitating a remand to obtain these records.
- Claimed conditions
- right foot metatarsalgia, right hip strain with limitation of motion, right hip strain with limitation of extension, spinal stenosis, facet hypertrophy and bulging disc, to include intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS) and degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25093414
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