The veteran's claims for service connection of his right and left hip disorders as secondary to his service-connected back disability are not well grounded.,The veteran's temporary total convalescence evaluation following hospitalization at a VA facility in September 1997 is not warranted.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the veteran's hip disorders to his service-connected back disability, and the hospitalization was for a nonservice-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative osteoarthritis of the right hip, total hip arthroplasty of the right hip, degenerative osteoarthritis of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 19, 2000
- Citation
- 0013293
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