The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for additional development due to incomplete VA examination reports and conflicting evidence regarding his service-connected migraines headaches and achilles tendonitis.
The deciding factor: The decision was remanded because of incomplete VA examination reports that did not provide sufficient detail on the severity of the Veteran's migraine headaches and achilles tendonitis.
- Claimed conditions
- migraines headaches, right achilles tendonitis, left achilles tendonitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 28, 2019
- Citation
- 19166888
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
The Board granted service connection for migraines headaches as secondary to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the private medical opinion that it is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's migraine headaches are secondarily linked to or related to his service connected PTSD.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for sleep apnea, a disability manifested by chest pains, and increased ratings for PTSD with associated depression, anxiety, and insomnia, lumbosacral strain, and migraines headaches.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for further development and readjudication of the veteran's claims.
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