What can I claim secondary to tension-type headache?

Before the factors

What DVA means by tension-type headache

A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.

Tension-type headache, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tension-type headache: (a) means a condition in which within a 12 month period, there are episodes of headache lasting at least 30 minutes, occurring on at least one day per month for at least three consecutive months, and a minimum of ten episodes occur within that 12 month period; and (b) has at least two of the following characteristics: (i) bilateral location; (ii) pressing/tightening (nonpulsating) quality; (iii) mild or moderate intensity; (iv) not aggravated by routine physical activity (such as walking or climbing stairs); and (c) causes clinically significant distress or impairment of social, occupational, educational, or other important areas of functioning; and (d) excludes: (i) cluster headache; (ii) migraine; (iii) headache attributable to structural abnormalities or inflammatory disorders of the head and neck; (iv) headache attributable to systemic disease; and (v) headache that results from normal physiological stress such as exercise, or the temporary effect of extraneous agents. (3) While tension-type headache attracts ICD-10-AM code G44.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of tension-type headach

Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(6) to 9(12) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, tension-type headache where it was already present before or during service. If service caused tension-type headache outright, those factors are not available to you.

RH No. 37 of 2018 · BoP No. 38 of 2018 · 4 factors

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