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Sub Category	Procedure/Condition
General Adult Conditions	3rd nerve palsy, 4th nerve palsy, 6th nerve palsy, back pain, backache, balance problems, blurred vision, cervical spondylosis, clumsiness, cranial nerve palsy, facial pain, facial weakness, herpes zoster, hydrocephalus, paraparesis, ptosis, radiculopathy, sarcoidosis, sciatica, sensory loss, shingles, slurred speech, spinal cord, spinal disease, spinal injury, temporal arteritis, tingling, trigeminal neuralgia, vertigo, weakness, wrist drop
Dementia	altered behaviour, Alzheimer's disease, aphasia, ataxia, behaviour change, brain tumour, bulbar palsy, cerebellar ataxia, chorea, cognitive disorders, dementia, depression, dysarthria, dysphagia, dysphasia, dysphonia, encephalopathy, falls,  gait disorders, Huntington's, incoordination, memory loss, personality change, poor coordination, poor memory, pseudobulbar palsy, speech disorders, swallowing difficulties, unstable gait, unsteady
Epilepsy	blackouts, brain tumour, collapse, complex partial seizures, convulsions, epilepsy, faint, falls, fits, funny turn, grand mal, loss of consciousness, petit mal, seizures, shaking, syncope, tongue biting, tonic clonic, tuberose sclerosis
Neuromuscular	apneoa, bulbar palsy, carpal tunnel syndrome, cervical disc disease, claw hand, cramp, dermatomyositis, diabetic amyotrophy, dysarthria, dystonia, entrapment neuropathies, foot drop, mononeuropathy, muscle diseases, muscle wasting, muscle weakness,  muscular dystrophy, myasthenia, myoclonus, myopathy, myositis, myotonia, nerve entrapment, neuopathic pain, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, peripheral neuropathy, polymyositis, polyneuropathy, porphyria, proximal myopathy,  proximal weakness, restless legs syndrome, spasticity, swallowing difficulties, torticollis, Tourette's syndrome, tremors, unstable gait, unsteady, walking difficulties, wasting
Movement Disorders	abnormal movements, akathisia, ataxia, athetosis, benign essential tremor, blepharospasm, botulinum toxin, bradykinesia, cerebellar ataxia, cerebral palsy, chorea, dysarthria, dyskinesia, dysphonia, dystonia, essential tremor, gait disorders,  Huntington's, hyperkinesia, incoordination, jerky movements, movement disorder, myotonia, Parkinson's, poor coordination, pseudobulbar palsy, reduced co-ordination, rigidity,  shaking, slowness, spasticity, swallowing difficulties, tics, Tourette's syndrome, tremors, unstable gait, unsteady, walking difficulties
Multiple Scleroses	bladder dysfunction, demyelinating disease, dizziness, double vision, dysarthria, gait disorders, multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis, pseudobulbar palsy, unstable gait, unsteady
Transient Ischaemic Attack/Stroke (Blood vessel blockages)	amaurosis fugax, arteriovenous malformation , brain stem stroke, brain tumour, carotid stenosis, cerebral thrombosis, cerebellar stroke, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral vasculitis, cerebral venous thrombosis, cerebrovascular disease, funny turn, gait disorders,  giant cell arteritis, monocular blindness, optic neuritis, stroke, subarachnoid haemorrhage, syncope, thrombotic embollism, transient ischaemic attack, vertebro basilar insufficiency, visual disturbance, visual field defect, visual loss, visual problems
Headache	brain tumour, cluster headache, double vision, headaches, migraine, pituitary tumour, primary headache, tension headaches
Motor Neurone Disease	bulbar palsy, motor neurone disease, pseudobulbar palsy, swallowing difficulties
Sleep/Fatigue	apneoa, collapse, drowsiness, fatigue, obstructive sleep apnoea, sleep disorders
Cerebrovascular (blood vessels to the brain)	amaurosis fugax, aphasia, arteriovenous malformation , blackouts, blindness, brain stem stroke, brain tumour, bulbar palsy, carotid stenosis, cerebral thrombosis, cerebellar stroke, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral palsy, cerebral vasculitis, cerebral venous thrombosis, cerebrovascular disease, complex partial seizures, confusion, convulsions, dysphagia, dysphasia, dysphonia, encephalopathy, fits, funny turn, gait disorders, gait disorders, hemianopia, hemiparesis, hemiplegia, intra-cerebral haemorrhage, optic neuritis, paraplegia, post-stroke disability, pseudobulbar palsy, spasticity, speech disorders, stroke, subarachnoid haemorrhage, swallowing difficulties, thrombotic embollism, transient ischaemic attack, unstable gait, unsteady, vasculitis, vertebro basilar insufficiency, visual disturbance, visual field defect, visual loss, visual problems
Head Injury	balance problems, concussion, confusion, dysarthria, head injury