The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for migraines (also claimed as headaches) due to an inadequate medical opinion regarding direct and secondary service connection.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided were based on inaccurate factual premises, necessitating a new examination to address both direct and secondary theories of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- migraines (also claimed as headaches)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25043449
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.
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The Board denied service connection for neck condition, acquired psychiatric disorder, injury to head, migraines, and vision loss as the evidence did not support a finding of current disability related to service.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for migraines, to include as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected chronic sinusitis. The appeal for tinnitus was dismissed due to untimeliness.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a cervical spine disability and bilateral hearing loss, while denying service connection for asthma, anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder, depressive disorder, GERD, migraines (also claimed as headaches), insomnia, left hip disability, right hip disability, and plantar fasciitis.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, effective from the date of the February 2025 rating decision.
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