What can I claim secondary to posterior tibialis tendinopathy?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list posterior tibialis tendinopathy as a factor. If DVA has accepted your posterior tibialis tendinopathy, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionPosterior tibialis tendinopathy
- Conditions it may open1
- SourceRMA SoPs
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How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your posterior tibialis tendinopathy, and another condition's SoP lists posterior tibialis tendinopathy as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list posterior tibialis tendinopathy as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Pes planus
RH No. 67 of 2021 · BoP No. 68 of 2021
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (8): “having posterior tibialis tendinopathy at the time of the clinical onset of pes planus” [clinical onset] — factor (20): “having posterior tibialis tendinopathy at the time of the clinical worsening of pes planus” [worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (8): “having posterior tibialis tendinopathy at the time of the clinical onset of pes planus” [clinical onset] — factor (19): “having posterior tibialis tendinopathy at the time of the clinical worsening of pes planus” [worsening]
Other accepted conditions that also open pes planus
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions posterior tibialis tendinopathy does.
What DVA means by posterior tibialis tendinopathy
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Posterior tibialis tendinopathy, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, posterior tibialis tendinopathy means inflammation or degeneration of the posterior tibialis tendon that produces localised pain or tenderness or rupture of the posterior tibialis tendon.
RH No. 45 of 2021 · BoP No. 46 of 2021 · 15 factors
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