Illness	Number of cases
Spondylosis (M47.00)	288
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.0)	219
Cervical disc disorders (M50.0)	89
Dorsalgia - Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back site unspecified (M54.00)	65
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis site unspecified (M48.00)	20
Rheumatism unspecified (M79.00)	20
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified - Hemarthrosis unspecified joint (M25.00)	15
Postprocedural musculoskeletal disorders not elsewhere classified - Pseudarthrosis after fusion or arthrodesis (M96.0)	15
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicocranial syndrome (M53.0)	12
Somatoform disorders - Somatization disorder (F45.0)	10

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.0x)	547
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.0)	318
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	304
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.x)	165
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918)	128
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	14
Interdisciplinary management of pain with short-term treatment (8-91b)	8
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	4
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	0
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	0

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2300 , 2309 , 3753

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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
4	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*
4	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
4	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

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB11	Podiatrist (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.