Soldier needed surgery after having to wear military shoes for about 12 hours a day
Army shoes damaged // Photo: Reuters
A soldier who had to wear military shoes for about 12 hours a day and suffered "hammer fingers" in his left leg requiring surgery was recognized as an IDF defender.
The lawsuit states that at the age of 11, he complained of pain in his left foot and also in the military boarding school received a week's exemption from shoes for swelling in one of his fingers. After completing mechanical engineering studies at the military boarding school, he was drafted in profile 97 and embedded in the Golan Heights unit. About a year and a half from the beginning of the service, he first felt restriction and pain in his left leg. The doctors who examined him initially thought it was a dermatologist, but a dermatologist referred to him diagnosed that the soldier had an orthopedic problem: "hammer fingers." About four years ago, the soldier had to undergo surgery to fix his left foot.
Hammer fingers is actually a deformity of the foot which causes the feet of the feet to bend or point down instead of being straight and pointing forward. Hammer fingers are an inborn phenomenon but they usually develop over time due to locking of shoes.
A medical expert on behalf of the Defense Ministry's Compensation Officer examined the soldier following the filing of the lawsuit by Attorney Michael Pascal who deals with lawsuits against the Ministry of Defense and stated that although it is usually a birth cause, in the absence of a muscle-related neural cause, the deformity development in this case cannot be ruled out This is due to the locking of military shoes required by the service, and the expert therefore determined that the aggravation of 100 percent should be obtained for deformity with 3-4 fingers in the left foot.
Following the expert's opinion, the Compensation Officer recognized the disorder with these fingers as a malfunction that occurred during his military service and following his service. When the Defense Ministry medical committees return to normal operation, the amount of compensation or compensation they deserve will be determined.