The VA determined that the Veteran's current bilateral ankle disabilities are not related to his military service or any service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA found no evidence of a bilateral ankle disorder during service and no nexus between the current disability and service or service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral ankle synovitis, bilateral ankle arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 23, 2013
- Citation
- 1342592
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a right shoulder disability and remanded the claims for bilateral ankle arthritis, sleep apnea, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, erectile dysfunction, degenerative disc disease, cervical, bilateral plantar fasciitis with arthritis and heel spurs, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claims for service connection for bone disease, hemorrhoids, neck arthritis, back arthritis, bilateral hand arthritis, bilateral knee arthritis, and bilateral ankle arthritis have been dismissed due to the Veteran's withdrawal of his appeal. The claim for hypertension has been granted.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for service connection for bilateral foot synovitis and tenosynovitis, bilateral ankle synovitis and tenosynovitis, and bilateral hallux valgus due to an already-pending appeal of these issues from a previous VA Form 10182.
- Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral ankle arthritis as secondary to his service-connected disability of pes planus.
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