The Board has granted service connection for right and left hip disorders that are secondary to the Veteran's service-connected lumbosacral strain and bilateral knee disabilities. The issues of increased ratings for the Veteran's bilateral knee disabilities have been remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran’s bilateral hip disorders are aggravated by his service-connected back and bilateral knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hip Disorder, Left Hip Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 20, 2021
- Citation
- 21023357
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