The Board granted restoration of a 10 percent rating for the Veteran's right hip strain with limited flexion and right proximal tibia fracture, but denied a compensable rating for right hip strain with thigh impairment and scars post open reduction internal fixation.
The deciding factor: Improvement in the disability was not shown to have occurred as the evidence did not support sustained material improvement under the ordinary conditions of life.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip strain with thigh impairment, right proximal tibia fracture with residual pain and surgery with limitation of flexion and shin splints
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25031540
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 719 · Granted: 54% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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