The Veteran's service-connected chronic tension headaches are rated at 50 percent, the maximum schedular evaluation available under Diagnostic Codes 8199-8100. The Board finds that her January 2012 VA examination and lay statements demonstrate that her headaches meet the criteria for a 50 percent evaluation.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's frequent, completely prostrating and prolonged attacks of headache pain are productive of severe economic inadaptability, warranting a 50 percent rating under Diagnostic Codes 8199-8100.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic tension headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 17, 2016
- Citation
- 1624369
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