The Board grants entitlement to service connection for right hip pain, to include as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected knee conditions.
The deciding factor: The evidence of record sufficiently supports entitlement to right hip strain as secondary to service-connected knee conditions, resolving all reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25028589
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
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