The Board denied service connection for bilateral tarsal tunnel syndrome as it is not caused or aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected back disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence indicates that the claimed symptoms are not related to any nerve entrapment or condition resulting from the Veteran’s service-connected back disability and instead are accounted for by unrelated bilateral tarsal tunnel syndrome (a compression of the nerve in the ankle or foot).
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral tarsal tunnel syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19181429
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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