The veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development to clarify his service status at the time of his stroke and to obtain any relevant medical records.
The deciding factor: Service connection may be granted if there is evidence linking a current disability to military service, but the specific nature of the veteran's service status during the claimed incident needs clarification.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a left basal ganglia infarction intracranial hemorrhage (cerebrovascular accident (stroke)), post-concussion headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0639485
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right ear hearing loss and denied a compensable rating for the head scar associated with traumatic brain injury. The claims for increased ratings were remanded due to inadequate examinations.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a compensable evaluation for post-concussion headaches and remanded the issue of service connection for a right wrist condition.
- Dismissed
The appeal for evaluation of post-concussion headaches was dismissed because the veteran withdrew the application.
- Partly granted
The Board granted separate evaluations for post-concussion headaches at 30 percent disabling and dizziness and vertigo at 10 percent disabling, but denied a higher rating for the TBI.
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