The Board remands the case to adjudicate the Veteran's motion for clear and unmistakable error (CUE) in a 2009 rating decision, as well as service connection for right wrist carpel tunnel syndrome.
The deciding factor: The AOJ has not adjudicated the October 2023 CUE claim in the first instance, which affects the essential fairness of the proceeding before the agency.
- Claimed conditions
- post right wrist injury with residuals of pain and prominence of the scapholunate joint, right wrist carpel tunnel syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25109828
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 837 · Granted: 24% (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.
- Dismissed
Your claims for service connection have been granted, and you are now receiving a 10% rating for each of the conditions. The appeals are dismissed as they no longer identify specific determinations with which you disagree.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral osteoarthritis of the hands and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome of the wrists due to a lack of medical opinion linking these conditions to his active duty service.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection for right wrist carpel tunnel syndrome, left wrist carpel tunnel syndrome, and PTSD were dismissed due to withdrawal. The appeal for reopening of service connection for PTSD was granted, but the claim for service connection for PTSD itself was denied. Appeals for service connection for right hip disorder, right knee disorder, and right foot disorder were remanded.
- 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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