The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for a right leg disability, foot disability, and bilateral hip disability are not well grounded. However, service connection is granted for a bilateral hip disability as secondary to his service-connected post-operative herniated nucleus pulposus.
The deciding factor: Competent medical evidence of a current diagnosis of a separate bilateral hip disorder was presented, which is causally related to the veteran's service-connected back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Leg Disability, Foot Disability, Bilateral Hip Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0006516
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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