The Board found no evidence of disability of the right groin resulting from VA medical treatment and denied compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for disability of the right groin. The residuals of a fracture of the calcar region were also not compensable as there was no current disability.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's right groin pain may have predated his July 1995 VA hospitalization and physical therapy, but there is no evidence linking it to the treatment received during that time. The fracture of the calcar region had healed and did not cause any current disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Groin Pain, Fracture of Calcar Region
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 2, 2001
- Citation
- 0103345
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