The Board denied service connection for right ankle injury residuals due to a lack of evidence supporting the presence of a current disability.
The deciding factor: The weight of medical evidence is against finding functional impairment of the right ankle, and there are no recent complaints or diagnoses related to the right ankle post-service.
- Claimed conditions
- right ankle injury residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2025
- Citation
- 25002440
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Decisions by this judge: 2,035 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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