The veteran's bilateral hip strains are reasonably related to her service-connected neuropathy involving the lower extremities, and she is granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established as the veteran's bilateral hip strain is proximately due to her service-connected neuropathy of the lower extremities.
- Claimed conditions
- Axonal neuropathy of the left lower extremity, Axonal neuropathy of the right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- January 8, 2008
- Citation
- 0800751
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