Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	261
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	237
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	97
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	28
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	25
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	20
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	18
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	12
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	11
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	8

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment by specific positioning of the patient in bed, e.g. positioning in a sling table or special bed (8-390.1)	798
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	356
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	330
Specific psychotherapeutic procedure where patients are treated individually - individual therapy (9-410.05)	308
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	237
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	177
Specific psychotherapeutic procedure where patients are treated individually - individual therapy (9-410.04)	172
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	164
3D surface measurement by laser scanning (3-302)	147
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	122

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3700 , 3753 , 2300

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ25
CQ01

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

Number	Group
70	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*
46	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
31	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
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	Theorie: Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe in Mönchengladbach Praxis: Radiologische Klinik des St. Bernhard Hospitals, Nuklearmedizinische Gemeinschaftspraxis in Duisburg sowie die Gemeinschaftspraxis für Strahlentherapie in Duisburg/Moers
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)