The Board has determined that the veteran's current 30 percent evaluation for calluses of the feet adequately reflects his disability, as it is not due to calluses but rather a static deformity of the foot resulting in pes planus. The preponderance of evidence does not support a higher rating.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected foot calluses are secondary to multiple nonservice connected static foot disorders (pes planus, hammertoes, and depression of transverse metatarsal arch), rather than the calluses causing other foot disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Calluses of the feet, Pes planus (flatfeet), Degenerative joint disease of the feet, Hammertoes, Deformity of both feet manifested by a depression of the transverse metatarsal arch and multiple interdigital neuromas
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- May 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0612908
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