The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for her hip and lumbar sprain conditions, finding that the evidence did not support higher disability ratings.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's hip and lumbar conditions did not meet the criteria for higher ratings due to limited extension and flexion, and the lack of ankylosis or other severe symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip bursitis, limitation of extension, right hip bursitis, limitation of extension, right hip bursitis, limitation of flexion, left hip bursitis, limitation of flexion, lumbar sprain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 7, 2025
- Citation
- 25008821
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 916 · Granted: 40% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran argues that he should have been granted service connection for lumbar sprain and hearing loss as early as 1965 based on his STRs showing these conditions existed in service. The Board finds the RO's failure to adjudicate this CUE claim was an error and remands the matter.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Veteran's left shoulder subluxation with bursitis was granted a 40 percent rating from March 12, 2024, while the right hip bursitis limitation of flexion was denied. The Veteran was also granted entitlement to special monthly compensation at the housebound rate and aid and attendance due to his service-connected disabilities starting on that date.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of October 2, 2015 for the grant of service connection for lumbar sprain and right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy due to good cause shown for the Veteran's failure to file a Notice of Disagreement within one year of the initial denial.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The appeal resulted in the denial of increased ratings for left hip bursitis and a noncompensable rating, but granted individual unemployability (TDIU).
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