The Board found that the veteran's degenerative joint disease of the left hip is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected through and through gunshot wound distal third left lower extremity with recurrent exostosis and distal neuropathy, and granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that if one assumed that the reason for acceleration of the hip arthritis would be due to ankle arthritis, it would not be consistent logically for the conditions to be ipsilateral. The veteran's left leg disability caused his right hip to develop degenerative changes instead.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 5, 2001
- Citation
- 0124217
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