The Board has granted increased disability ratings of 20 percent for the service-connected degenerative arthritis of both hips, resolving doubt in favor of the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence showed functional loss and limitation of hip motion due to pain and tenderness or during a flare-up, which met the criteria for a 20 percent disability rating under Diagnostic Code 5252.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Arthritis of Right Hip, Degenerative Arthritis of Left Hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- February 1, 2011
- Citation
- 1104134
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