Migraines & headaches decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claims for service connection for migraines, GERD, and plantar fasciitis due to deficiencies in prior VA examinations and opinions.

The Board denied service connection for right ear hearing loss and bilateral vision disabilities, while remanding claims for left ear hearing loss, bilateral pes planus, headaches, and obstructive sleep apnea.

The Board dismissed all service connection claims due to the Veteran's death, as there is no substituted appellant for this appeal.

The Board denied service connection for sinusitis, bronchitis, liver abscess, abdominal aorta, left and right hamstring disabilities. The Board granted an increased disability rating of 40 percent for right upper extremity radiculopathy but denied all other claims.

The Board granted the appeals for severance of service connection for neck, left shoulder, and left upper extremity radiculopathy disabilities, as well as entitlement to service connection for headaches.

The Board denied service connection for headaches and degenerative disc disease (DDD) and degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine as there was no evidence to support a nexus between the claimed conditions and the Veteran's active duty service.

The Board granted an effective date of December 6, 2016, for the grant of service connection for a headache disability.

The Board granted service connection for athlete's foot and denied it for chronic migraine headache.

The Veteran's generalized anxiety disorder was granted a disability rating of 70 percent, but no higher, on and after February 3, 2024. The other claims were remanded for further development.

The Board is remanding the claims for service connection due to a regulatory duty to assist error.

The Board remands the claims for an increased evaluation of migraines and entitlement to TDIU for further development, including a new VA examination with appropriate consideration of the effects of medication on the severity of the headache disability.

The Veteran's service-connected migraine headaches, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, GERD, and cervical degenerative disc disease are granted ratings of 50%, 70%, 30%, and a grant of service connection respectively.

The Board granted service connection for lumbosacral strain and initial ratings of 30 percent for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, migraines, and hiatal hernia with slight reflux and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) effective September 5, 2018.

The Board restored the 50% rating for cervicogenic headaches and the 40% rating for right upper extremity cervical radiculopathy, effective February 1, 2025, as the reductions were not proper. The reduction of the left upper extremity cervical radiculopathy to 0% was upheld.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for migraines (headaches) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected insomnia disorder with associated anxiety symptoms due to an inadequate VA examination.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, identified as GAD, MDD, panic disorder, and somatic symptom disorder, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss. A 50 percent initial rating was granted for TMJ disorder.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) effective November 8, 2021, and denied increased ratings for headaches and right knee patellofemoral pain syndrome.

The Board denied service connection for depression but granted an initial 50 percent rating for a headache disability.

The Veteran's claim for an increased rating for migraines was granted, effective July 1, 2022. The claims for service connection for various conditions were either denied or remanded.

The Board denied a compensable disability rating for the Veteran's migraines as they did not meet the criteria for characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in two months over the last several months.