The veteran's claims for a rating in excess of 40 percent for his right ankle disability, service connection for a left ankle disability as secondary to the right ankle disability, and TDIU were all denied. The right ankle disability is rated at 40 percent.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support granting any higher ratings or establishing service connection for the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, Postoperative fracture, right ankle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- July 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0626643
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What this means for you
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