The Board has granted service connection for left hip and left knee disabilities as secondary to the veteran's service-connected right foot disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports that the current left hip and left knee arthritis are proximately due to the service-connected post-operative right foot crush injury residuals.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip arthritis, left knee arthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0602039
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.
What you can do next
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