The Board has granted service connection for a bilateral hip disability but denied service connection for a shoulder disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the finding of a current hip disability related to service, while there is no credible evidence of a present shoulder disability.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hip disability, shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 22, 2008
- Citation
- 0844194
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What this means for you
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