The Board has granted service connection for trochanteric pain syndrome and degenerative arthritis of the hips as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected right knee disabilities, effective from August 25, 2008. The rating assigned is a 20 percent disability rating for right knee subluxation.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there was an increase in disability within one year prior to the date of claim and granted the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date based on this finding.
- Claimed conditions
- trochanteric pain syndrome, degenerative arthritis of the left hip, degenerative arthritis of the right hip
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- June 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19143805
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
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