The Board found that the Veteran's bilateral shoulder and hip disabilities are either due to service or associated with other already service-connected conditions, granting service connection for these disabilities.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's bilateral shoulder and hip disabilities are related to his inservice HUMVEE accident and/or are not dissociable from his other service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral shoulder disability, bilateral hip disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 25, 2010
- Citation
- 1003599
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What this means for you
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