The Veteran seeks a temporary total rating based on convalescence for his service-connected left foot disability. He also contends that he should be granted service connection for a related left leg/ankle disability, which would allow him to receive the requested rating.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner will determine if the Veteran's current left leg/left ankle disability is etiologically related to or had its onset in service and whether it was caused or aggravated by his service-connected status post second metatarsal fracture of the left foot.
- Claimed conditions
- status post second metatarsal fracture of the left foot, left ankle/leg disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2012
- Citation
- 1209385
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded three issues: 1) the issue of entitlement to an initial evaluation greater than 30 percent for bilateral pes planus, 2) service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (depression), and 3) service connection for left and right ankle/leg disabilities. The Veteran's depression is secondary to his service-connected foot disabilities, but the VA examiner’s opinion was inadequate as it did not address the relationship between pain caused by service-connected disabilities and the Veteran's depression. For the ankle/leg issues, the VA examiner found that the degenerative joint disease of the bilateral ankles is not proximately due or aggravated by the service-connected foot disabilities. The obesity causing the Veteran's degenerative joint disease of the bilateral ankles was also not addressed in the opinion.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection have been remanded due to the need for additional medical examinations and the identification of outstanding private treatment records.
- Denied
The Board found no evidence of a service-connected left ankle/leg, bilateral wrist, or low back disability and denied the Veteran's claims.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate examination and opinion regarding whether a service-connected left foot disability aggravated or caused any current ankle/leg or Morton's neuroma disabilities. The Veteran's claim for a temporary total rating based on convalescence remains pending.
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