The Board has determined that the claim for service connection for a right hip disorder is not well grounded. The claim of service connection for a right ankle disorder, however, is found to be well grounded.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing a current right hip disorder and insufficient evidence linking any potential right hip disorder to service or a service-connected disability. In contrast, there is credible evidence indicating that the veteran's current right ankle disorder may be related to his service-connected fracture of the right tibia and fibula.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hip Disorder, Right Ankle Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 14, 2000
- Citation
- 0021341
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What this means for you
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