The Board has determined that the Veteran's degenerative joint disease of the bilateral hips is related to service and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on continuity of symptomatology since service, supported by credible testimony from the Veteran regarding his in-service injuries and ongoing hip pain.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease of the bilateral hips
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 6, 2015
- Citation
- 1542841
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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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