The Board remands the claim for a medical opinion regarding the severity of the Veteran's right shoulder disability during the period on appeal, including the frequency, duration, characteristics, severity, or functional loss during flare-ups and taking into account the ameliorative effects of medications taken to treat the disability.
The deciding factor: The Board finds that there are pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors in this case, and that VA examinations and opinions are required on remand to cure the errors.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder acromioclavicular joint separation
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25086511
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Decisions by this judge: 734 · Granted: 31% (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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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 40 percent for his lumbar spine degenerative arthritis is denied.,The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 30 percent for his tension headaches is denied.,The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 20 percent for his right shoulder acromioclavicular joint separation is denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claims for increased ratings for her service-connected right shoulder acromioclavicular joint separation and residuals, fracture of 1st proximal lateral sesamoid, right foot require additional development due to inadequate VA examinations.
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