The Board granted an initial rating of 90 percent, but no higher, for left and right total hip replacements.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's bilateral hip replacement conditions manifested with painful motion or weakness, such as to require the use of crutches, which more closely approximated the criteria for a 90 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- left total hip replacement, status post arthritis with scar, right total hip replacement, status post arthritis with scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- June 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25055229
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.
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