The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been presented to reopen the claim of service connection for a headache disability, characterized as migraine headaches. The Veteran's current diagnosis is attributed to service exposure, and the Board finds this sufficient to establish service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA physician provided an opinion attributing the Veteran's current migraine headache disorder to service exposure, including inservice headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- Headache (migraine)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 1, 2011
- Citation
- 1108037
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