The Veteran's initial evaluations for left hip strain and tension headaches have been denied as they do not meet the criteria for higher ratings.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support a finding that the Veteran’s service-connected conditions cause severe economic inadaptability or very frequent prostrating attacks of headache pain, which are required for higher ratings.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip strain, tension headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- June 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19142992
What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an initial rating of 70 percent for the Veteran's service-connected depressive disorder due to another medical condition with depressive features and generalized anxiety disorder, denied a higher rating for his migraine including migraine variants, and denied ratings for other conditions.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including tension headaches, bilateral plantar fasciitis, and a bilateral hearing loss disability. The Board also denied an initial compensable rating for the Veteran's headache disability.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial compensable rating for tension headaches, alternatively diagnosed as migraine headaches, finding that the evidence did not show characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in 2 months over the last several months.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for left hip strain as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral plantar fasciitis due to a lack of evidence supporting a causal relationship.
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