The Board has granted service connection for right heel spur disability and low back disability, finding that both conditions began during the veteran's active service.
The deciding factor: Service medical records show complaints of right heel pain and lumbosacral strain during service, with current X-ray findings and VA examination results supporting these diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- right heel spur, degenerative joint disease of the lumbosacral spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 12, 2001
- Citation
- 0100894
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal to restore service connection for left foot plantar fasciitis, finding that the original award was clearly and unmistakably erroneous.
- Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection of his right heel spur, finding that it is at least as likely as not related to his in-service plantar fasciitis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has found errors in the decision and has ordered additional examinations to determine if the Veteran's ankle conditions and left foot stress fractures are related to his service. The claims for right foot/toes numbness, right heel spur, and left foot stress fractures remain pending.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's degenerative joint disease of the lumbosacral spine, finding that it is at least as likely as not related to military service.
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