The Board found that the Veteran's current right great toe disorders are not related to his active service, and thus denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: VA examinations did not find a nexus between the Veteran's in-service treatment and his current right great toe disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- right great toe onychomycosis, 1st MTP joint arthralgia, symptomatic hallux rigidus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 13, 2012
- Citation
- 1238721
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- Remanded (sent back)
The appeal is remanded to provide the Veteran with notice of his right to a hearing on his claim for a higher rating for his service-connected right great toe foot injury.
- Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claims for service connection for right great toe onychomycosis and a back disability, finding that these conditions are related to his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional examinations and consideration of the issues related to his service-connected conditions, including bruxism (claimed as teeth grinding), migraine headaches, PTSD, lumbar strain, reactive airway disease, rheumatoid arthritis of the bilateral knees, tinnitus, restless leg syndrome, left elbow chronic epicondylitis, right foot plantar fasciitis, allergic rhinitis, status-post right 4th metacarpal fracture, bilateral shin splints, erectile dysfunction, scars on the bilateral knees and left elbow, right great toe onychomycosis, and acne.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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