The Board has reopened the claim for service connection of a low back disability and granted it as secondary to service-connected right hip replacement. Service connection was also granted for right knee joint osteoarthritis and left knee joint osteoarthritis, both secondary to service-connected right hip replacement.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinion established a link between the current disabilities of the low back, right knee, and left knee and the Veteran's service-connected right hip replacement with removal of femur hardware.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disability, degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine, right knee joint osteoarthritis, left knee joint osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 1, 2022
- Citation
- 22031891
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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