Board reasoning
The Board remanded both claims for additional development, including scheduling new VA examinations to obtain adequate opinions on onset, continuity, and potential secondary relationship to service-connected conditions. It notes prior exam scheduling issues and requires the examiner to consider the Veteran's lay statements about onset and continuity, and to provide a complete rationale linking evidence to conclusions.
Issues
- Entitlement to service connection for a bilateral elbow disorderRemanded
- Entitlement to service connection for a bilateral hand and finger disorderRemanded
Extracted with gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07. Citations are kept only when they appear in the decision text.