Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of November 1, 2022 for the award of a 30 percent evaluation for migraine and migraine variants but denied earlier effective dates for the TBI and lumbosacral strain claims.
The deciding factor: The increase in disability of migraines was factually ascertainable on November 1, 2022, while there is no evidence of an increase in disability within the relevant period for the other conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine including migraine variants, residuals of traumatic brain injury (TBI), lumbosacral strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25101169
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