The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for right foot plantar fasciitis and left foot plantar fasciitis as secondary to her service-connected ankle conditions due to lack of evidence supporting a causal link between the current diagnoses and her service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found that there is no medical evidence showing that the Veteran's bilateral foot plantar fasciitis was proximately caused or aggravated by her service-connected right and left ankle conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- right foot plantar fasciitis, left foot plantar fasciitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 7, 2019
- Citation
- A19002648
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
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