The Board has determined that the Veteran's service connection claim for residuals of a left ankle injury is granted, finding that his credible account of an inservice injury and treatment therefor supports a grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The Veteran provided credible and probative testimony regarding an inservice left ankle injury and subsequent medical history. The VA examiner could not provide a nexus opinion without resort to speculation due to the unavailability of pertinent service records.
- Claimed conditions
- old healed fracture of the left posterior malleolus, mild osteoarthritis of left tibiotalar joint, calcaneal spur of the left ankle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 3, 2012
- Citation
- 1234404
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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.
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