The Board has granted service connection for gluteal strain with myofascial pain syndrome involving the left hip, finding it secondary to the Veteran's service-connected stress fracture of the 3rd and 4th metatarsal on the left foot.
The deciding factor: The gluteal strain with myofascial pain syndrome is found to be related to the service-connected left foot condition due to an altered gait and chronic intermittent severe pain involving the left hip since service in Southwest Asia.
- Claimed conditions
- gluteal strain with myofascial pain syndrome, trochanteric bursitis, sacroiliitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19127692
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
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
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