The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim of service connection for a bilateral hip disability and finds that new and material evidence has been received. The Veteran is now entitled to service connection for his claimed condition, as it is at least in equipoise with the possibility that he has trochanteric bursitis which began during service.
The deciding factor: The April 2015 private diagnosis of bilateral trochanteric bursitis raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim of service connection for a bilateral hip disability, as it suggests continuity of symptoms since service and relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the underlying claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hip disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 17, 2016
- Citation
- 1643689
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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