The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a hip disorder or generalized arthritis that began during service, and thus cannot establish service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence showing that the current hip disability or any generalized arthritis had its onset in service or was manifest to a degree of ten percent within one year after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- status post hip replacements, generalized arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 23, 2003
- Citation
- 0310007
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
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