The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected right knee disability aggravated his diagnosed back and right hip conditions, warranting service connection for these disabilities.,The evidence is in equipoise regarding whether the Veteran's altered gait due to his right knee condition caused or aggravated his right hip osteoarthritis.
The deciding factor: An altered gait resulting from a service-connected right knee disability has been found to aggravate both the Veteran's diagnosed back and right hip conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- multi-level degenerative joint disease of the thoracolumbar spine, right hip osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 30, 2016
- Citation
- 1639519
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