The Veteran's acute intermittent tension headaches are not manifested by very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability, so an initial disability rating in excess of 30 percent is denied. The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran has benign paroxysmal positional vertigo as a residual of TBI, resulting in an initial separate 10 percent disability rating for this condition effective August 15, 2018. An initial separate 70 percent disability rating for TBI based on apraxia is granted since August 15, 2018.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support the presence of very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks of migraine or non-migraine pain productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute Intermittent Tension Headaches, Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPV), TBI with Apraxia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 2, 2026
- Citation
- A26018608
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