The Board granted service connection for a low back disorder and right foot metatarsalgia, finding that it is at least as likely as not that these conditions are causally linked to in-service trauma.
The deciding factor: Based on the veteran's credible account of in-service injuries involving his right foot and low back, and the close proximity of the showing of current chronic disability in these areas to the veteran's period of military service, it is at least as likely as not that the veteran's lumbar strain and metatarsalgia of the right foot are causally linked to in-service trauma.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back disorder, Right foot disorder (metatarsalgia)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- May 16, 2008
- Citation
- 0816184
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Granted
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