The Board has determined that the Veteran's chronic headache condition and migraines with migraine variants are a result of his military service, granting service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in approximate balance that the Veteran's current disability is a result of an in-service incident, including documented headaches during service and continuity of symptomatology post-service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic headache condition, migraines with migraine variants
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 30, 2023
- Citation
- 23047974
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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.
What you can do next
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