The Board has determined that the Veteran's claims for service connection for chronic sleep disorder, migraine headaches, curvature of the spine, and tinnitus are granted as secondary to his service-connected temporomandibular joint dysfunction.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows a link between the Veteran's service-connected temporomandibular joint dysfunction and his claimed conditions, including chronic sleep disorder, migraine headaches, curvature of the spine, and tinnitus.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic sleep disorder, migraine headaches, curvature of the spine, tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2010
- Citation
- 1022841
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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.
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