The Board granted service connection for bilateral hip osteoarthritis based on secondary aggravation of the condition by service-connected knee disabilities, with a 100% rating effective October 23, 2017.
The deciding factor: The claim was successful due to an October 2018 VA medical opinion linking the bilateral hip osteoarthritis to aggravation from the Veteran's service-connected knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hip osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 15, 2024
- Citation
- A24065553
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Decisions by this judge: 2,199 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to inadequate medical opinions regarding whether the bilateral hip osteoarthritis is secondary to service-connected chronic left quadriceps strain and whether obesity played a role in causing or aggravating the condition.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, posttraumatic stress disorder, and bilateral hip osteoarthritis secondary to left shoulder arthritis. The claim for hypertension was remanded due to a predecisional duty to assist error.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's bilateral hip osteoarthritis is not proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disability and was not incurred in or aggravated by service, directly or presumptively.
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