The Board has granted a noncompensable evaluation for the veteran's service-connected right ankle disability and a 10 percent evaluation for his service-connected right wrist tendonitis.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show any basis to grant higher evaluations for either condition, with the right ankle being stable and essentially asymptomatic and the right wrist having mild de Quervain's tenosynovitis.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Ankle Injury, Right Wrist Tendonitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 2, 2003
- Citation
- 0306339
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