The Veteran's healed sprain of the left ankle is rated at a 10% effective July 8, 2009.,Service connection for a surgical scar on the left ankle was granted effective March 11, 2010.
The deciding factor: VA treatment records dated in July 2009 documented ankle pain and chronic ankle pain. The earliest date as of which it is factually ascertainable that an increase in disability had occurred for a healed sprain of the left ankle was July 8, 2009.
- Claimed conditions
- healed sprain, left ankle, surgical scar of the left ankle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 3, 2015
- Citation
- 1509093
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