The Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a head injury, to include migraine headaches was denied as there is no competent medical evidence showing the Veteran has a current disability or that any headache disorder is related to his military service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing the Veteran currently suffers from a headache disorder and no in-service diagnosis or treatment for such a condition. The presumption of soundness was not rebutted, and continuity of symptomatology could not be established as there were no post-service complaints or diagnoses of a headache disability.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a head injury, migraine headache disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 10, 2010
- Citation
- 1021534
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