The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral hip disability is secondary to his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities and grants service connection for this condition. The issue of whether the Veteran's bilateral ankle disability is also secondary to his service-connected bilateral hip disability remains pending.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding that the Veteran's bilateral hip disability, which resulted in total hip arthroscopies (THAs), was caused by and aggravated by his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities. The Board has granted service connection for this condition based on secondary service connection criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hip Disability, Bilateral Ankle Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 13, 2017
- Citation
- 1757630
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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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