The Veteran's right and left foot disabilities are found to be caused or permanently worsened by his service-connected gunshot wounds, thus granting service connection on a secondary basis.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's right and left foot disabilities are found to be proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected gunshot wounds.
- Claimed conditions
- right foot arthritis, left foot arthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 2, 2018
- Citation
- 1800015
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection, higher ratings, and earlier effective dates, as well as dismissed his claim for a TDIU.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for sleep apnea, right wrist sprain, left wrist disability manifested by pain, left foot arthritis, right foot arthritis and hallux valgus, headaches, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, degenerative changes of the cervical spine, right lateral epicondylitis (claimed as right arm disability), and left upper extremity cervical radiculopathy (claimed as left arm disability and left elbow disability).
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right foot arthritis and an earlier effective date of January 3, 2017, for a psychiatric disability rating, but denied service connection for left ankle disorder, right ankle arthritis (secondary to PTSD), increased rating for psychiatric disability, TDIU, and obstructive sleep apnea.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral foot degeneration, bilateral foot arthritis and bilateral upper extremity neuropathy as secondary to a service-connected condition due to incomplete medical opinions.
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