The Board has denied service connection for bone spurs in both feet and vasectomy residuals, but granted service connection for vasectomy residuals.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of bone spurs or a causal relationship between the claimed conditions and service.
- Claimed conditions
- bone spurs (left foot), bone spurs (right foot), vasectomy residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 10, 2020
- Citation
- 20002218
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Decisions by this judge: 2,549 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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