The Board has granted service connection for bilateral hip and ankle disabilities as secondary to the veteran's service-connected knee disability.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on the June 1999 VA physician's opinion that the veteran's hip and ankle symptoms are secondary to his knee problems.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hip Degenerative Joint Disease, Bilateral Ankle Degenerative Joint Disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 5, 2000
- Citation
- 0026700
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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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