The Board has determined that there is no competent medical evidence linking the Veteran's current bilateral hip disorder with his service-connected knee disorders. Therefore, the claim for service connection for a bilateral hip disorder as secondary to service-connected bilateral knee disorders is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no clinical medical evidence to support any significant effects of the bilateral knee disabilities that would cause the bilateral hip conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hip disorder, right knee degenerative joint disease, left knee degenerative joint disease, postoperative residuals, ruptured ligament, right knee, postoperative residuals, lateral meniscus, left knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2010
- Citation
- 1017341
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What this means for you
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