The Board has granted service connection for right hip strain and denied service connection for the other conditions. The veteran's current diagnoses of right hip strain are supported by his in-service treatment records, which indicate recurrent right hip pain.
The deciding factor: Service medical records document the veteran's complaints and treatment for right hip strain during service, supporting a secondary service connection theory.
- Claimed conditions
- status post left shoulder separation, postoperative scar, residual stress fracture, fifth metatarsal, right, residual stress fracture, fifth metatarsal, left, pes cavus, residuals nasal fracture, slight deviated nasal septum, right hip strain, retropatellar pain syndrome, left, retropatellar pain syndrome, right, bone spurs, bilateral feet
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 9, 2004
- Citation
- 0432631
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded several claims for further action, including effective date determinations and service connection determinations. The Veteran's service records from Portsmouth Naval Hospital are requested to be obtained.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of his right hip disability is denied as the earliest date of entitlement is April 21, 2025.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's current right hip disability is likely related to his service, granting him service connection for a right hip disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for tension headaches, cervical strain, lumbosacral strain, right hip strain, and left hip strain due to inadequate opinions regarding whether these conditions are aggravated by service-connected disabilities.
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