The Board granted service connection for generalized headaches, secondary to service-connected tinnitus, on a causation basis.
The deciding factor: The evidence is approximately evenly balanced as to whether the Veteran's headaches are caused by his service-connected tinnitus, and reasonable doubt was resolved in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- generalized headaches
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 8, 2025
- Citation
- 25012609
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,604 · Granted: 65% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a lumbosacral strain and generalized headaches, but denied an initial compensable rating for allergic rhinitis.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for right shoulder and neck disabilities, but granted service connection for tinnitus.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for headaches, finding a causal relationship between the Veteran's diagnosed condition and his active service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter of service connection for generalized headaches to obtain a medical opinion based on a direct theory of entitlement.
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