The Board granted a 30 percent rating for gout of the bilateral feet, but no higher.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's gout of his feet more nearly approximated a severe injury to his feet due to symptoms such as severe and debilitating pain, swelling, tingling, erythema, disturbance of locomotion, and interference with standing that occurred during flare-ups.
- Claimed conditions
- gout of the bilateral feet
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25106552
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Decisions by this judge: 878 · Granted: 46% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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