The Board remands the claims for further development and examination to determine the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected traumatic deviated septum status post fractures and to adjudicate a secondary claim for headaches.
The deciding factor: The October 2022 VA examination was found inadequate, and there is contradictory evidence regarding the onset of migraine headaches. The Board must consider a separate rating for the Veteran's report of migraine headaches as a manifestation of his service-connected traumatic deviated septum status post fractures.
- Claimed conditions
- traumatic deviated septum status post fractures (claimed as nose condition), headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25018713
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