Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	166
Spondylosis (M47.86)	151
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	75
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	67
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	64
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	63
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	60
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	49
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	39
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	36

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 (8-020.5)	690
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	681
Extended investigation of pain, with special equipment for monitoring and the possibility of the administration of medicines, as well as uniform follow-up of therapeutic success (1-911)	665
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	634
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	451
Optical photo and video-assisted methods for metric shape and surface representation (3-310)	365
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	346
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	278
Measurement of the mineral content of the bone - bone density measurement (3-900)	234
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	137

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 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
CQ01

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

Number	Group
61	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
43	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Die theoretische Ausbildung erfolgt im Rheinisches Bildungszentrum für Berufe im Gesundheitswesen der Marienhauskliniken GmbH
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Die theoretische Ausbildung erfolgt in der Verbundschule für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe der Marienhaus Kliniken GmbH im Saarland am Standort Lebach. Ausbildungsberuf Pflegeassistenz (Saarland)
HB19	Nursing professionals	Die theoretische Ausbildung erfolgt in der Verbundschule für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe der Marienhaus Kliniken GmbH im Saarland am Standort Lebach.
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Die theoretische Ausbildung erfolgt in der Verbundschule für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe der Marienhaus Kliniken GmbH im Saarland am Standort Lebach.
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)	Einsatz Psychiatrie / Praktisches Semester / ggf. Examen / Bildungsstätte für Sozialwesen Birkenfeld