The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for updated medical records and a VA examination to assess his headaches, which he claims are secondary to his service-connected low back and bilateral knee disabilities.
The deciding factor: The examiner must determine if the Veteran’s headaches are proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- headaches (migraines)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19124933
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Decisions by this judge: 1,861 · Granted: 27% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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
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