Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	252
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	178
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	139
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	100
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	99
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.58)	64
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	59
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	56
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.20)	39
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	38

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.x)	1.027
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	830
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	459
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	370
Other surgical closure of blood vessels (5-389.x)	324
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.0)	312
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	279
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord with contrast medium (3-823)	272
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	272
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	254

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3755

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)
No participation

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
16	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
16	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
8	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Im Bereich der Hüft-Endoprothetik, Knorpelforschung, Infektdiagnostik
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Im Bereich der Endoprothetik, Hüftendoprothetik, Entwicklung von Revisionsimplantaten
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Ruhr Universität Bochum; Praktischer Unterricht am Krankenbett; Vorlesungen
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung in konzerneigener Ausbildungsakademie
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)