The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral hip arthralgia is related to his service-connected left total knee replacement, and thus service connection for this condition is granted.
The deciding factor: Competent medical evidence supports a finding of bilateral hip arthralgia due to an antalgic gait caused by the service-connected left knee.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hip arthralgia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 30, 2012
- Citation
- 1215505
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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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