The Board has dismissed the appeal for service connection for migraine headaches due to the Veteran's withdrawal of his appeal. The case is remanded for further development regarding whether new and material evidence has been received to reopen a claim of service connection for bilateral knee disability, as well as for evaluations of the Veteran's low back and left ankle/heel disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection for migraine headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, bilateral knee disability, low back disability, left ankle/heel disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 11, 2010
- Citation
- 1029925
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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.
- Granted
The Board granted a 50 percent rating for the Veteran's migraine headaches based on prostrating attacks occurring more than once a month and severe economic inadaptability.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches were granted a 50 percent disability rating, effective August 8, 2023, due to very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks that are productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the service connection claim for a bilateral knee disability to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, including scheduling an additional VA examination.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities to the AOJ for further development and consideration of evidence not previously considered.
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