The Board has granted a higher rating from 20% to 30% for the veteran's service-connected residuals of right foot surgery, finding that these symptoms produce severe disability.
The deciding factor: The recent medical evidence depicts an overall severe right foot problem, including both service-connected and non-service-connected disorders of that foot. The Board found that the current severe right foot symptoms cannot be clearly dissociated from the service-connected right foot disability.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right foot surgery
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 22, 2003
- Citation
- 0307682
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Decisions by this judge: 685 · Granted: 36% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of right foot surgery, finding that there is no persuasive evidence to support a link between his current disabilities and an in-service injury.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development to obtain a new VA examination and medical opinion regarding her bilateral knee and foot disabilities, including bilateral plantar fasciitis.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted a 30 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected residuals of right foot surgery, which is the maximum schedular rating available under Diagnostic Code 5284. The Veteran's Morton's neuroma was separately rated at 10 percent.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development and a travel board hearing.
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