The Board determined that the Veteran does not have a current right ankle and/or right heel disability, to include stress fracture residuals, due to disease or injury from her ACDUTRA service. Similarly, she does not have a current left ankle and/or left heel disability, to include stress fracture residuals, due to disease or injury from her ACDUTRA service.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations did not find any clinical evidence of a current disability for either the right or left heels/ankles. The Veteran's STRs do not indicate any in-service stress fractures that would have resulted in current disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- stress fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 14, 2013
- Citation
- 1315855
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