The veteran was granted a 30 percent initial rating for bilateral plantar fasciitis, with degenerative joint disease.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's condition met the criteria for a 30 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 5278 due to limitation of dorsiflexion at ankle and marked tenderness under metatarsal heads, with X-ray evidence of degenerative joint disease.
- Claimed conditions
- right foot plantar fasciitis, with degenerative joint disease, left foot plantar fasciitis, with degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 4, 2009
- Citation
- 0907980
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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- Dismissed
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