The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for residuals of a head injury, headaches, and dizziness. Service connection is established for PTSD and a scar in the right eyebrow as residuals of an eye injury. The claim for residuals of a neck injury is denied due to lack of evidence of current disability.
The deciding factor: The Board found new and material evidence supporting service connection for the veteran's headaches, PTSD, and scar in the right eyebrow. However, there was no evidence of a current cervical spine or associated nerve/musculature disorder that would support service connection for residuals of a neck injury.
- Claimed conditions
- headaches, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), scar in the right eyebrow, scar on the right posterior neck
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- July 28, 2005
- Citation
- 0520424
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete development of records and will provide a supplemental statement of the case if necessary.
- Partly granted
The Board has not made a final determination on the claims of service connection for inguinal hernia, PTSD, joint pain, fibromyalgia, left knee disability, right knee disability, tinnitus, chronic fatigue syndrome, respiratory disability, sleep disorder, IBS, and headaches. The claims are remanded to obtain additional evidence and determine if these conditions are related to service.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for headaches was reopened due to new and material evidence, and the Board found that his current headaches are related to service. Service connection is granted.
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