The Veteran's bilateral trochanteric bursitis is granted as secondary to her service-connected fibromyalgia. The Board finds the determination of the August 2017 examiner concerning the relationship between the Veteran’s bilateral trochanteric bursitis and fibromyalgia to be especially probative.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's bilateral trochanteric bursitis is found to be secondary to her service-connected fibromyalgia based on medical literature supporting a relationship between the two conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral trochanteric bursitis, residuals of traumatic brain injury, lumbar spine condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2021
- Citation
- 21000544
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