The Board has determined that the veteran's degenerative arthritis of the left hip is related to a broken left femur in service and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence, including the veteran's own reports, supports a finding that his current left hip disability is due to an injury he sustained in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative arthritis of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 28, 2006
- Citation
- 0636888
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied initial ratings in excess of 10 percent for degenerative arthritis of the right and left hips, but granted a 10 percent rating from April 12, 2011, for both hip conditions.
- Partly granted
The appeal for higher ratings of sciatic and femoral nerve radiculopathies was dismissed, while the claims for service connection of degenerative arthritis and avascular necrosis of both hips were remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for an addendum medical opinion to determine if the Veteran's left hip disability was caused or aggravated by his service-connected foot disabilities.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for degenerative arthritis of the left hip as secondary to service-connected disabilities but denied service connection for a right hip disability, hypertension, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
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