Granted
The Board grants service connection for left ankle sprain / strain, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.
The deciding factor: The June 2025 VA medical opinion supports a positive nexus between the current disability and in-service repetitive stress and micro trauma, despite some inadequacies in the rationale provided by the examiner.
- Claimed conditions
- left ankle sprain / strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 15, 2025
- Citation
- 25012913
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