Claim of Stewart v. P & C Food Markets, Inc.

Mikoll, J. P.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 6, 1995, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant sustained a causally related disability.

*668After working as a cashier for approximately two months, claimant consulted an orthopedic surgeon complaining of persistent pain in his legs and feet. The surgeon diagnosed the cause of pain as a slipped femoral epiphysis or slipped left hip and performed surgery to correct the condition in August 1990. Subsequent to the surgery, claimant’s manner of walking changed, resulting in his allegedly developing chronic low back…