The Veteran's service-connected plantar warts and tender plantar callosities of both feet are currently rated at 20 percent, but the Board finds that these disabilities do not warrant a higher rating as they are characterized as moderately severe.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show any actual loss of use of either foot due to the service-connected conditions, and therefore, the disability picture is adequately contemplated by the current 20% rating assigned under Diagnostic Code 5284 for moderate residuals of foot injuries.
- Claimed conditions
- Plantar Warts, Tender Plantar Callosities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 23, 2011
- Citation
- 1111662
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's plantar warts disability, affecting the soles of both feet, has resulted in chronic pain that is commensurate with a 20 percent disability rating under DC 7804. The criteria for a higher rating have been met.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including PTSD, IHD, plantar warts, lumbar and cervical spine DJD, hip and shoulder DJD, preclude him from securing and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's plantar warts are manifested by symptoms that are analogous to superficial and painful scarring. A 10 percent rating is assigned for this condition.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's bilateral pes planus is no more than severe, and did not meet the criteria for a higher rating. The decision also noted that his plantar warts have not required more than topical therapy.
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