The Board granted service connection for lipomatous tethered cord syndrome and resultant bilateral foot disability, reflex sympathetic dystrophy with causalgia, and assigned a 10 percent disability rating.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the appellant's symptoms of numbness and burning pain on the bottoms of both feet, along with tenderness of plantar surfaces to palpation, more nearly equated to moderate foot impairment for each foot.
- Claimed conditions
- lipomatous tethered cord syndrome, bilateral foot disability, reflex sympathetic dystrophy with causalgia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 6, 2004
- Citation
- 0411917
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