The Veteran's claimed headaches have not been attributed to an undiagnosed illness and there is no competent medical evidence linking any of the diagnosed disability to service, including service in the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations.
The deciding factor: There are no objective findings or diagnoses related to the Veteran's current headache disability in his STRs, and the long period without problems after service weighs against a finding of a connection between the disability and service.
- Claimed conditions
- headaches with light sensitivity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 23, 2017
- Citation
- 1705486
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for residuals of traumatic brain injury, tinnitus as a residual of TBI, and headaches with light sensitivity as a residual of TBI. The Veteran's conditions are found to be related to his in-service head injuries.
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