Migraines & headaches decisions — 2025

The Board granted an effective date of December 2, 2021, for the award of a 70 percent rating for PTSD and service connection for tension headaches and tinnitus.

The appeal was dismissed due to an improper concurrent election of review options.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for headaches and a peripheral vestibular condition due to an inadequate VA examination.

The Veteran's tension headaches (now diagnosed as migraines) were granted a 50 percent rating from March 29, 2023, to May 11, 2024.

The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches and denied service connection for hypertension.

The Board denied service connection for headaches, finding that the evidence does not support a direct or secondary relationship to the Veteran's military service.

The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus.

The Board remands the claim for a more adequate medical opinion regarding secondary service connection of the Veteran's migraine disability.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for chronic headaches, including migraines, and left and right knee disabilities due to a duty to assist error.

The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including an acquired psychiatric disorder, tinnitus, hypertension, a dental and oral disorder, gastroesophageal reflux disease, headaches, a lumbar spine disorder, a cervical spine disorder, right ankle disorder, left ankle disorder, right wrist disorder, and left wrist disorder.

The Board granted a 30 percent disability rating for migraines and denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for chronic bronchitis, while remanding several other claims.

The Board remands the claims for an increased rating and TDIU due to service-connected PTSD, panic disorder without agoraphobia, and TBI, as well as a claim for hearing loss.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and increased the rating for a left ankle disability to 20 percent, while denying service connection for scarring of the face and neck, papules of the face and neck, traumatic brain injury, obesity, and migraine headaches.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia disorder, mild neurocognitive disorder with residuals of a TBI and migraine headaches.

The Board remands all service connection claims for further development and to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Veteran withdrew the appeals for service connection for migraine headache disorder and fibromyalgia.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for an increased rating for migraines, and the Board dismissed the claim.

The Board denied service connection for a headache condition and remanded claims for other conditions including right hand, left hand, lower back, right ankle, right foot, left foot, hypertension, and an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board granted service connection for a headache disability as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), resolving doubt in favor of the Veteran.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection of a headache disability and residuals of traumatic brain injury (TBI) disability.