The Board of Veterans' Appeals denied the veteran's claim for an increased disability rating for his service-connected post traumatic concussive syndrome manifested by persistent, recurrent headaches and positional vertigo, finding that a rating higher than 10 percent was not warranted.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support assigning a higher rating as the condition had been rated at 10 percent since August 1994 based on Diagnostic Code 8045-9304 for post traumatic concussive syndrome.
- Claimed conditions
- post traumatic concussive syndrome, persistent, recurrent headaches, positional vertigo
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2000
- Citation
- 0028440
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Whole decision: Dismissed
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- Whole decision: Granted
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