Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection and increased ratings due to a need for additional development, including obtaining medical opinions and updated VA treatment records.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain an adequate medical opinion addressing secondary service connection and medication use as per rating criteria requirements.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, cocaine, cannabis, and alcohol use disorders in early remission, erectile dysfunction, radiculopathy of the left lower extremity, radiculopathy of the right lower extremity, thoracolumbar degenerative arthritis with intervertebral disc syndrome
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25110189
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