The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's migraine headache, finding that it was incurred during active duty.
The deciding factor: Service connection is granted based on a diagnosis of migraine headaches documented in both service records and post-service medical records, with no evidence to suggest an unrelated etiology.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 14, 2012
- Citation
- 1217267
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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.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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