The Veteran's total right hip replacement has been granted a rating of 70 percent effective March 25, 2013 and her 90 percent rating remains in effect since March 13, 2018.,The Veteran's total left hip replacement has been granted a rating of 70 percent throughout the appeal period.,The Veteran’s total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy has been denied for an increased rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran experienced marked severe residual weakness, pain or limitation of motion following implantation of prosthesis in her right hip. The use of crutches was required due to painful motion and weakness.,Similarly, the Veteran's left hip replacement also showed marked severe residual weakness, pain or limitation of motion with the need for assistive devices including a walker.,The Veteran’s total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy has already been assigned the maximum allowed rating (50 percent) and no higher.
- Claimed conditions
- status post total left hip replacement due to osteopenia, status post total right hip replacement due to osteopenia, total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19108934
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Decisions by this judge: 2,017 · Granted: 36% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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