The Board denied the Veteran's claims of service connection for right hip disability and left hip osteoarthritis, finding no current disability and insufficient evidence to establish a nexus between any diagnosed conditions and service or service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The VA medical findings did not document any objective evidence of a current right hip disability. The Board found the Veteran's statements regarding his right hip disability were less credible than the objective evidence of record, including the lack of post-service identification of such a condition and normal findings during service. For left hip osteoarthritis, the Board noted no in-service manifestation or characteristic manifestations within one year of separation, and concluded that the VA examiner’s opinion was more probative than the Veteran's statements.
- Claimed conditions
- Right hip disability, Left hip osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18157095
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