The Board has determined that the Veteran's current headaches are at least as likely as not related to his service, including exposure to IED blasts and post-concussion syndrome. As a result, the claim for service connection for headache syndrome is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran reported experiencing headaches during service and continued to experience them after discharge, with no evidence of chronic treatment seeking until recently. The July 2016 VA examiner's opinion was not addressing the Veteran's report that his headaches started in service and had worsened over time.
- Claimed conditions
- headache syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 15, 2022
- Citation
- 22014990
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for various conditions were granted effective from July 1, 2020.
- Granted
The Board granted an initial disability rating of 50 percent for headache syndrome, finding that the evidence is in at least approximate balance as to whether the Veteran's headaches have more nearly approximated very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability throughout the period on appeal.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for headache syndrome, as it is caused by the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection and related benefits, as no clear and unmistakable error was found in the prior rating decisions and the evidence did not support an earlier effective date.
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