Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	241
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	220
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	140
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	135
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	104
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	51
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	44
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine lumbar region (M42.16)	31
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	25
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.3)	22

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation with the smallest possible incision into the skin and minimal tissue damage (minimally invasive) (5-986.x)	460
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	459
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	338
Surgical incision into the spinal canal (5-033.0)	319
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	270
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	264
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.a)	223
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	217
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.11)	210
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	186

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Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
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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*
43	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
34	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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Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
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