The Board has determined that the Veteran's foot calluses are related to military service and have granted service connection for this disability. The right foot arthritis is not considered secondary to her service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: A VA examiner found that the Veteran's service connected disabilities did not etiologically factor in the development of right foot arthritis, but also indicated that they may aggravate (chronically worsen) the right foot arthritis.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the right foot, foot calluses
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 9, 2014
- Citation
- 1430810
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claims for an acquired psychiatric disability, a sleep disorder, type two diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, vertigo, hypertension, migraine headaches, arthritis of various joints, and kidney disease.
- Granted
The Veteran's arthritis of the right foot and left foot are granted service connection. Bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus are denied, and a right leg disability is remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the previous denial of service connection for a right foot disability was due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error. The Veteran's current condition is being remanded for further evaluation and opinion regarding whether his arthritis and cold injury residuals are related to service.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's foot calluses are as least as likely as not related to his service-connected leg length discrepancy disability, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
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