The Board has granted service connection for degenerative arthritis and lumbosacral strain, as well as degenerative arthritis of the left hip, both found to be secondary to the veteran's service-connected bilateral pes planus.
The deciding factor: Competent medical evidence supports a finding that the veteran's current low back pain and left hip condition are caused by his service-connected pes planus.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Arthritis, Left Hip, Degenerative Arthritis, Lumbosacral Spine
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 12, 2004
- Citation
- 0412421
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- Dismissed
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