The Board has granted service connection for bilateral hip and knee disabilities, as well as right lower extremity radiculopathy, all of which are found to be proximately due to the Veteran's service-connected degenerative spondylosis of the lumbar spine.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's hip, knee, and leg conditions were found to be related to his service-connected low back disorder through a process of aggravation.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative arthritis of bilateral hips, Degenerative joint disease of bilateral knees, Right lower extremity L5-S1 radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- April 7, 2010
- Citation
- 1013269
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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.
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