Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	196
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	143
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	140
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	55
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	43
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	31
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	31
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	27
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy cervical region (M47.22)	26
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	26

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.0x)	139
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.12)	120
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.03)	99
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.02)	89
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	85
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around the autonomic (sympathetic) nervous system (8-916.02)	59
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	34
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	23
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.01)	20
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.00)	19

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

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6	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*
6	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
6	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”

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