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Entitlement to service connection for a left hand disorder is remanded.

January 30, 2026Citation Nr. 26001435Docket 20-24 444va.gov source

  • left hand disorderRemanded
  • right hand disorderRemanded
  • left knee disorderRemanded
  • right knee disorderRemanded
  • left ankle disorderRemanded
  • left shoulder disorderRemanded
  • fatigueRemanded
  • disorder manifested by chest painRemanded
DecisionAnalysis

Board reasoning

The Board remands all eight claimed conditions for new VA examinations to determine current diagnoses and etiologies, including potential links to service and to the veteran's ankylosing spondylitis or asthma. The examiner must review the file, consider prior November 2012 findings, and distinguish symptoms caused by service-connected conditions from separate diagnoses, providing rationales for all opinions.

Issues

  • left hand disorderRemanded
  • right hand disorderRemanded
  • left knee disorderRemanded
  • right knee disorderRemanded
  • left ankle disorderRemanded
  • left shoulder disorderRemanded
  • fatigueRemanded
  • disorder manifested by chest painRemanded

Authorities

  • Kyhn v. Shinseki, 716 F.3d 572Cited regarding notification of examinations and due process before applying 38 C.F.R. § 3.655(b)

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