The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including low back strain and migraine headaches, have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation. The Board has granted his application for total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the Veteran’s thoracolumbar spine disability alone affected multiple areas of occupational functioning and coupled with regular attacks of headache symptoms, would reasonably render such employment impossible.
- Claimed conditions
- low back strain, migraine headaches, pseudofolliculitis and dermatophytosis, left shoulder strain, right shoulder strain, cervical spine strain, right anterior thigh scar and tinea pedis of the feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- October 22, 2018
- Citation
- 18144007
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for bilateral hearing loss, migraine headaches, and PTSD due to additional development of records and examination.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to incomplete medical records and insufficient opinions regarding the relationship between service, including a stick injury in England, and current left eye disability (including amblyopia and cataracts) as well as migraine headaches.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew all his appeals, including the one for an increased rating for low back strain.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches are productive of very frequent, completely prostrating and prolonged attacks capable of producing severe economic inadaptability. The Board has granted a 50 percent disability rating for the Veteran's service-connected migraine headaches.
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