The Board has determined that the Veteran's headache disability is proximately due to his service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and therefore grants the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The medical opinion provided by a VA neurologist found that PTSD, including poor sleep and stress related to PTSD, was at least as likely as not causing some part of the Veteran's headache disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Headache
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19165245
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What this means for you
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