The Board has granted service connection for a lower back condition and a right hip condition that are secondary to the Veteran's service-connected residuals of right knee arthroscopic surgery.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether an abnormal gait caused by the Veteran’s service-connected residuals of right knee arthroscopic surgery caused or aggravated his lower back and right hip conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- lower back condition, right hip condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19143493
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What this means for you
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