The Board has granted service connection for a bilateral hip disorder and remanded the increased rating claim for keratitis. The low back disorder claim is denied as not incurred in or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established for bilateral hip degenerative joint disease due to credible lay statements of in-service symptoms, with medical evidence supporting this finding. Service connection for a low back disorder was denied as the Veteran did not experience an in-service injury or chronic symptomatology since service that would warrant presumptive service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hip Degenerative Joint Disease, Low Back Disorder (Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease, Multilevel Facet Joint Osteoarthritis)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 3, 2015
- Citation
- 1504936
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