The Board has granted the Veteran's application to reopen her claim for service connection for right ankle disability, secondary to her service-connected pes planus. The decision finds that there is reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran and grants service connection on a secondary basis.
The deciding factor: The evidence is approximately evenly balanced as to whether the Veteran has current right ankle disability caused by her service connected pes planus, with the Board resolving this doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- right ankle sprain, right ankle disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19160269
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