Migraines & headaches decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for migraines as secondary to a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and remanded the claim for sleep disturbances due to a need for an adequate medical opinion.

The Board denied a compensable disability rating for chronic headaches as the Veteran did not experience characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in two months over the last several months.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 30 percent for cervicogenic headaches prior to April 29, 2020, as the evidence did not show very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.

The Board restored the 30% disability rating for migraines and the 20% disability rating for temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) as the reduction in evaluations was not factually warranted.

The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder with anxious distress and denied the claims for visual impairment, migraine headaches, a back disability, and a bilateral foot disability.

The Board granted service connection for headaches, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.

The Board granted an initial rating of 30 percent, the maximum schedular rating, for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and migraines, including migraine variants.

The Board remands the claims for service connection and an initial compensable evaluation due to duty to assist errors.

The Veteran's service-connected conditions, including PTSD, migraines, uterine fibroids, and lumbosacral strain, rendered her unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation from April 27, 2019.

The Board granted a rating of 50 percent for tension headaches beginning on April 13, 2022, but denied an increased rating in excess of 30 percent prior to that date.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for reentrance into a VR&E program under Chapter 31, as his service-connected and nonservice-connected disabilities did not worsen to the extent that they precluded him from performing the duties of the occupation for which he was previously found rehabilitated.

The Board denied a rating higher than 50 percent for depression and granted a 50 percent rating for migraines, while remanding the issue of entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board denied the veteran's claims for an earlier effective date, a higher initial rating, and TDIU, as well as dismissed his motion to revise a prior decision based on clear and unmistakable error.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for a headache disorder, to include migraines, for additional development and medical opinion.

The Board denied service connection for the veteran's claimed conditions, including migraines, left index finger disability, left and right shoulder disabilities, left epigastric disability, and TBI, as there was no evidence linking these conditions to his active-duty service.

The Board granted service connection for a bilateral arm disability, back disability, GERD, neck disability, bilateral leg disability, bilateral foot disability, sleep apnea, headache disability, sinusitis, and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome.

The Board is remanding the claims for a higher rating for migraine including migraine variants and TBI to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Board dismissed the Veteran's claims for service connection for migraines and residuals of a back injury due to untimely notice of disagreement.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for revision of prior rating decisions based on clear and unmistakable error (CUE), as there was no evidence that the outcome would have been manifestly different had the errors not occurred.

The Board granted the restoration of a 30 percent rating for headaches, effective June 1, 2023.