The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's lumbar degenerative disc disease with facet arthropathy, finding that it is causally related to his service-connected left hip disability. The issue of a higher evaluation for his left hip disability remains pending.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on secondary service connection due to the Veteran's service-connected left hip disability aggravating his lumbar degenerative disc disease with facet arthropathy.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar degenerative disc disease with facet arthropathy, degenerative arthritis of the left hip with possible avascular necrosis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 22, 2012
- Citation
- 1228883
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