The Board has determined that the veteran does not have current hip disabilities and there is no evidence of such in service. Therefore, service connection for right and left hip disabilities cannot be granted.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of current hip disabilities or any in-service injury or disease related to the hips.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hip Disability, Left Hip Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 7, 2004
- Citation
- 0400374
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