The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for bilateral hip bursitis and granted it. The Veteran's mechanical lower back pain with scoliosis is currently rated at 10 percent, but the Board denied an increased rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence submitted since the last final denial was found to be new and material, raising a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for service connection. The current disability has been linked to service through continuity of symptomatology. For the back condition, the Veteran's range of motion is within the criteria for a 10 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hip bursitis, mechanical lower back pain with scoliosis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2018
- Citation
- 1800600
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