The Board has determined that additional development is needed to properly adjudicate the Veteran's claim for service connection for recurrent migraine headaches. This includes obtaining VA and SSA records, as well as scheduling a new VA examination by a neurologist.
The deciding factor: The decision requires further evidence and evaluation due to the lack of post-service treatment records and the need to obtain additional medical opinions regarding the relationship between current migraine headaches and service.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 8, 2012
- Citation
- 1227302
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a new VA opinion to address the nature and etiology of the Veteran's migraine headaches, including whether they are related to active-duty service or aggravated by service-connected tinnitus.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal for a higher rating for his service-connected recurrent migraine headaches is remanded due to the need for additional medical examination.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to incomplete records and inadequate efforts to obtain them. The RO must attempt to secure his military treatment records from 2007-2008.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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