BVA Decisions on Headache

47 real Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving headache. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

• Case 23-2226 — Unknown July 31,2024
  Rice ,through counsel,appeals a March 3,2023, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied entitlement to service connection for (1)obstructive sleep apnea (...
• Case 22-1946 — Vacated / Remanded September 16,2024
  VA advised him that the claim was previously denied in February 1981 and that he needed to submit new and material evidence to reopen it....
• Case 19-8927 — Unknown December 30,2021
  Simpson ,through counsel, appeals an August 20,2019,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board found no clear and unmistakable error (CUE)in an October 16,1995,VA...
• Case 07-0882 — Vacated / Remanded June 15,2009
  , through counsel,appeals a November 28,2006,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claim for entitlement to service connection for left and right...
• Case 08-0816 — Remanded / Vacated March 31,2011
  Fontenot , through counsel,appeals a May 7, 2008,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for entitlement to service connection for bilateral...
• Case 22-2306 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded September 29,2023
  Silberstein , through counsel,appeals a December 29,2021,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for (1)asthma,manifested by shortnes...
• Case 20-1455 — Vacated / Remanded September 14,2021
  In October 2003, the appellant requested that his disability compensation claim for the back be reopened based on new and material evidence....
• Case 24-4734 — Vacated / Remanded December 31,2025
  August 2018 Board Denial In August 2018,the Board denied service connection for sleep apnea and a headache disorder....
• Case 20-3955 — Vacated / Remanded December 30,2021
  The Board denied entitlement to (1)a disability rating in excess of 10%for left knee meniscectomy under Diagnostic Code 5257; (2)a rating in excess of 10%for limitation of left kne...
• Case 92-1347 — Affirmed June 21, 1994
  Glynn, had not submitted new and material evidence regarding his claim for service connection for a back condition, and thus refused to reopen this previously and finally denied cl...
• Case 13-1245 — Vacated / Reversed / Remanded vember 18,2015
  Specifically,the Board found that the October 1973 RO decision became final when the RO denied the substance of the hearing loss claim in September 2003 and the veteran failed to a...
• Case 23-4310 — Vacated / Remanded November 14,2024
  The Board found that neither the October 2020 nor the November 2020 examiner had adequately addressed whether VA had acted carelessly or negligently by not properly numbing the inc...
• Case 91-1082 — Vacated March 22, 1993
  The Board concluded that there was no evidence of MS in service or within the seven-year period for establishing service connection for MS on a presumptive basis (see 38 U....
• Case 22-4979 — Unknown February 27,2024
  Benton signed an application for expeditious discharge,acknowledging that the medical board found him, because of disability,unfit for retention,and that he waived his right to rev...
• Case 21-4626 — Affirmed December 8,2022
  Kershner's conditions were not related to either his chemical exposure or service in any way because carpal tunnel has nothing to do with external occupational exposures....
• Case 23-6490 — Vacated / Remanded November 25,2024
  Slater-Blackwell appeals through counsel a September 6,2023,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision finding no new and material evidence sufficient to reopen previously denied cl...
• Case 20-0205 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed February 25,2021
  In October 2017,the Board denied the appellant's claim for an increased disability rating for headaches....
• Case 16-3128 — Affirmed October 23, 2017
  Fluellen ,appeals through counsel a July 11,2016,decision of the Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)that,among other things,(1) determined that the appellant had not submitted new an...
• Case 91-1665 — Vacated / Remanded March 30, 1995
  The issue presented by this appeal is whether the Secretary's imposition by regulation of a causal nexus requirement, i....
• Case 24-7144 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded January 15,2026
  He underwent an examination the following month;the VA examiner diagnosed moderate-to-severe triscaphe joint osteoarthritis,but she opined that the condition was less likely than n...
• Case 03-2135 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated November 9, 2005
  innitus (a noise in the ears such as ringing, buzzing, roaring, or clicking), and (3) found that no new and material evidence had been presented to reopen his service- connection b...
• Case 98-157 — Affirmed
  In August 1984, the VARO notified the appellant that new and material evidence was required to reopen his claim....
• Case 20-5236 — Unknown June 21,2022
  23 The decision acknowledged the testimony that the severity of [appellant's]headaches [have]been characteristic of prostrating attacks since 2009, but the Board found that the evi...
• Case 09-4612 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated December 9,2011
  On May 23,1989,the Board denied a disability rating for headaches in excess of 10%....
• Case 22-6636 — Vacated / Remanded February 21,2025
  at 920,and opined that the appellant's hypertension was not related to his sinusitis....
• Case 12-1427 — Vacated / Remanded October 21,2013
  examination and opinion as to whether the appellant's back condition is related to service (medical nexus opinion)....
• Case 22-0363 — Affirmed August 23,2023
  The parties filed a joint motion for remand wherein they agreed that (1)the issue of entitlement to TDIU was reasonably raised prior to 2008,(2)the Board erred by finding that TBI ...
• Case 21-5726 — Unknown March 1,2023
  1 Appellant asks the Court to reverse the Board�s finding that VA satisfied its duty to assist....
• Case 23-1474 — Vacated / Remanded June 18,2024
  Accordingly,the Board determined that a new medical examination was necessary to clarify any chronic lymphatic disorder present during the appellate time period and its relationshi...
• Case 17-4239 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded February 6,2019
  The Board denied entitlement to an initial disability rating in excess of 10%for the period prior to August 16,2011,in a July 2013 decision....
• Case 22-0968 — Vacated / Remanded October 31,2023
  The Board found the veteran not competent to provide a link between her current low back disability and her service, but did not address her March 2017 Notice of Disagreement repor...
• Case 98-772 — Affirmed September 20, 1999
  In a rating decision of November 1994, the VA regional office (RO) confirmed and continued the denial of the appellant's claim for service connection for residuals of a head injury...
• Case 13-0808 — Vacated / Remanded June 3,2014
  The RO denied the claims in January 2010, finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the claims for service connection for head injury,memory loss,and ...
• Case 24-3612 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded May 30,2025
  In the April 16,2024,decision on appeal,the Board denied the veteran's claims....
• Case 06-0019 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed November 19, 2007
  In the December 2005 decision here on appeal, the Board determined that there was no CUE in the 1992 RO decision that assigned a single evaluation for residuals of head and neck in...
• Case 18-6256 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded November 16,2021
  at 4155 (Substantive Appeal),and in 1983, the Board denied the claims,R....
• Case 06-7279 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated May 11, 2007
  Hunt , through counsel, appeals a BOOKMARK/ September 1, 2005, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied his claims for service connection for a headach...
• Case 91-1682 — Vacated March 12, 1993
  Because the Court concludes that the BVA failed to fulfill its statutory duty to assist appellant in developing his claim for service connection for PTSD pursuant to 38 U....
• Case 20-5529 — Vacated August 31,2021
  The headache is not prostrating and not related to his herpes zoster outbreaks....
• Case 21-3782 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded November 8,2022
  Service Connection for Sinusitis In the decision on appeal, the Board denied service connection for sinusitis because the preponderance of the evidence was against finding that the...
• Case 23-6946 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded September 24,2025
  The RO found that the evidence did not show that the appellant had incurred a cervical spine disability during his in-service MVA and that any present disability was not related to...
• Case 22-6162 — Unknown November 7,2023
  In an August 2017 decision,the Board denied the appellant's claims....
• Case 11-3001 — Affirmed December 27,2012
  In March 2001,the RO denied the appellant's request to reopen his claim because there was no medical nexus evidence....
• Case 24-2345 — Unknown April 30,2025
  Giles appeals the February 16,2024,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied entitlement to service connection for (1)a right ankle disorder;(2)a left ank...
• Case 23-1665 — Unknown November 6,2024
  In February 2019,the Board denied the appellant's motion alleging CUE in the October 1997 administrative decision finding that the MVA was not incurred in the line of duty....
• Case 13-3507 — Affirmed September 17,2015
  Woods-Calhoun argues that the Board erred in its (1)threshold determination that she was not credible,and (2) determinations to deny benefits....
• Case 22-7337 — Unknown August 28,2024
  In an April 2016 decision,the Board denied a rating higher than 10%, effective before January 1,2011,for right knee degenerative arthritis,status post arthroscopic surgeries and un...