The Board found that the veteran does not have a current psychiatric disability or left hip disability for which service connection may be granted, and thus denied both claims. The veteran's symptoms are associated with his service-connected low back disability.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of diagnosed psychiatric or left hip disabilities within one year of discharge from active military service, and the Board found that any current symptoms are related to the veteran's service-connected low back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric Disability, Left Hip Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 17, 2005
- Citation
- 0507959
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