The Board has granted service connection for chronic right and left hip strains, finding that these conditions are secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral pes planus and knee strains.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in approximate balance as to whether the Veteran's service-connected bilateral pes planus and knee strains are proximately due to her service-connected bilateral hip strains.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic right hip strain, Chronic left hip strain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 6, 2023
- Citation
- A23034913
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for chronic right hip strain is being remanded due to the need for additional medical examination.
- Denied
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- Partly granted
The appeal for service connection for PTSD is dismissed as moot. The Board denied higher ratings for the Veteran's right hip and lower extremity radiculopathies, but granted a 40% rating from September 24, 2019 to January 31, 2022 for his right hip limited flexion and a 20% rating from June 18, 2010 to September 23, 2019 for both lower extremity radiculopathies.
- Granted
The Board has granted an earlier effective date of December 1, 2008 for the grant of a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU). The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to obtain and maintain substantially gainful employment since December 1, 2008.
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