The Board has determined that the Veteran's hip and knee disabilities are not proximately due to, the result of, or aggravated by his service-connected left sacral radiculopathy.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions have found no relationship between the Veteran's service-connected left sacral radiculopathy and his claimed hip and knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative arthritis of the hips, Degenerative arthritis of the knees
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2010
- Citation
- 1000601
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