The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral hip disability and granted it. The claims for increased ratings and earlier effective dates are being remanded.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports that the Veteran experienced aggravation of his pre-existing LCP disorder during military service, which is considered an in-service injury or disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hip Disability, Radiculopathy of the Right Lower Extremity, Radiculopathy of the Left Lower Extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 14, 2017
- Citation
- 1732899
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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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The Board has dismissed the appeals for service connection of low back and right knee disabilities due to improper filing deadlines.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for discontinuance of TDIU, reduction of disability rating for acquired psychiatric disorder, and reduction of disability rating for radiculopathy of the left lower extremity due to lack of response from the Veteran within the required timeframe.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for hypertension and bilateral hip disability, finding that the evidence did not support a link to service or any other compensable basis.
- Denied
The Board found that the evidence did not show an actual improvement in the Veteran's conditions, and thus denied the reduction requests for his service-connected disabilities.
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