The Veteran's osteoarthritis of both hips was aggravated by his service-connected right and left knee disabilities, and he is granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: An altered gait due to the service-connected knee disabilities contributed to the progression of the Veteran’s hip disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- osteoarthritis of the bilateral hips
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19104872
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, but denied an increased disability rating for the Veteran's herniated nucleus pulposus with post-traumatic arthritis of the lumbar spine.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a deviated septum, arthritis of the low back, osteoarthritis of the bilateral hips, left great toe disorder and herpes zoster as there was no evidence linking these conditions to the Veteran's active duty service.
- Granted
The veteran's osteoarthritis of the bilateral hips was granted as secondary to his service-connected degenerative joint disease of the left knee.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a medical opinion on whether plantar fasciitis was aggravated by active duty training.
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