The Board granted service connection for right and left hand conditions, a 50 percent rating for migraines, and remanded several other claims for further development.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of migraines are severe enough to warrant the maximum schedular rating under DC 8100, as they produce very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability. The Board also found that there was a duty to assist error in the previous examinations for the elbow, knee, and ankle conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- right hand condition, left hand condition, migraines, including migraine variants, left elbow condition, right elbow condition, left knee condition, right knee condition, left ankle condition, right ankle condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- November 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25100770
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