The Veteran's right flatfoot and bilateral ankle degenerative joint disease have been granted service connection.,A higher initial rating of 30% for right flatfoot has been granted, effective January 1, 2017.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on the Veteran’s credible lay reports of symptoms and objective clinical findings indicating pronounced unilateral flatfoot.
- Claimed conditions
- Right flatfoot, Bilateral ankle degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- May 5, 2020
- Citation
- 20031525
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various disabilities, including sinusitis, lung disability, liver disability, kidney disability, sleep apnea, shoulder disabilities, peripheral neuropathy of the extremities, and flatfoot, as there was no evidence to support a link between these conditions and the Veteran's active military service.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including pes planus with degenerative joint disease, bilateral hearing loss, thoracolumbar spine degenerative joint disease, bilateral knee and ankle degenerative joint disease, meet the criteria for a TDIU as they result in his inability to secure or follow substantially gainful employment.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's bilateral ankle degenerative joint disease is not related to his active service and does not meet the criteria for secondary service connection due to his service-connected hip and knee disabilities. The evidence did not establish a continuity of symptomatology or show arthritis as a result of in-service injury.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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