The Veteran's bilateral foot disability, including left plantar fibromatosis and bilateral bunion deformities on the right foot, is found to be due to military service. Service connection for this condition is granted.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on a finding of continuity of symptomatology from service through present time, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- left plantar fibromatosis, bilateral bunion deformities, callus sub fourth on the right
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 10, 2015
- Citation
- 1538797
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Related decisions
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral foot disorder is not related to service and therefore denied his claim. The issues of left plantar fibromatosis, right plantar fasciitis, acquired deformity of left other specified site, contracture of left tendon sheath, osteochondral defect of left great toe MTP head, osteoarthritis of left ankle/foot, fracture of other bone of left foot, and unspecified osteochondropathy of left foot are remanded for further development.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted temporary 100 percent ratings for convalescence based on surgeries performed in November 2011 and October 2013, resulting from service-connected bilateral foot disability (other than pes planus), diagnosed as plantar fibromatosis, bilateral union deformities and callus sub fourth on the right.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's multiple nonservice-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for a permanent and total disability rating necessary to qualify for nonservice-connected pension benefits.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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