The Board has determined that the veteran's current left ankle and cervical strain conditions are not related to service, thus denying his claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of any in-service incurrence or aggravation of a left ankle or cervical spine disability, and the medical evidence does not support a nexus between these conditions and service.
- Claimed conditions
- Current left ankle joint effusion, tenosynovitis of the flexor digitorum tendon, flexor hallucis longus tendon, and peroneus tendon; partial thickness tear/tendonitis of the peroneus brevis and longus tendons., Significant degenerative joint disease with intervertebral spurring at C5-6 level, spinal canal stenosis, neural foraminal stenosis bilaterally at multiple levels; disk herniation with osteophytic spurring at C3-4, C5-6, and C6-7 levels.
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 25, 2006
- Citation
- 0630147
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What this means for you
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