The Board granted service connection for a bilateral hand disorder and increased ratings for degenerative joint disease of the right hip and left hip, with no effective date provided as the decision is final.
The deciding factor: The veteran's bilateral hand disorder was found to be proximately due to or the result of his service-connected bilateral hip disability. The Board granted increased ratings for his service-connected bilateral hip disabilities based on current x-ray evidence and range of motion findings.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hand disorder, degenerative joint disease of the right hip, degenerative joint disease of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 14, 2003
- Citation
- 0320188
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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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