The Board has granted service connection for numbness in the right foot and right toes as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected residuals of chronic right ankle sprain status post right distal fractured fibula.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the numbness was a residual of the December 2014 right ankle surgery and related to the Veteran's service-connected right ankle disability, establishing a medical nexus between the conditions and his service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness in the right foot, numbness in the right toes
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 9, 2021
- Citation
- 21068220
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