The Veteran's bilateral pes planus with callosities and metatarsalgia was rated at 50 percent, the maximum available rating under Diagnostic Code 5276. The Board found that his symptoms were not severe enough to warrant a higher rating.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s disability did not meet or approximate the criteria for a higher rating as it did not demonstrate marked pronation and deformity, accentuated pain on manipulation, extreme tenderness of the plantar surfaces, or functional loss equivalent to severe injury in one foot and actual loss of use in the other foot.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral pes planus with callosities and metatarsalgia, Neuropathy of the right foot, Neuropathy of the left foot, Testicular cancer, Throat cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- March 31, 2014
- Citation
- 1413636
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