Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	372
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	214
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	206
Dorsalgia (M54.80)	179
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	171
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	144
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicocranial syndrome (M53.0)	71
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	71
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	49
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.56)	46

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary treatment of patients with chronic pain, which partly takes place in hospital (8-91c.20)	1.909
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	1.762
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	1.319
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	387
Interdisciplinary investigation of pain (1-910)	218
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	178
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the musculoskeletal system without contrast medium (3-806)	153
(9-984.7)	117
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	114
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	84

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1500

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 participation

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

Number	Group
43	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”

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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Evaluation funktioneller Diagnostikverfahren
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Herr Dr. Adermann ist Mitherausgeber der wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift "Manuelle Medizin".
Doctoral supervision	Kontinuierlich
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Es besteht eine Kooperation mit der Fresenius Hochschule Köln, Fachbereich Osteopathie. Hier können Studierende im 7. Semester ihren Praxiseinsatz in unserer Klinik unter der Supervision von OÄ Dr. med. Sabine Strupp durchführen, die als Dozentin in der Fresenius Hochschule Köln tätig ist.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Luxemburg und der Universität Essen-Duisburg

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit mehreren Krankenpflegeschulen.
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	In Kooperation mit mehreren Physiotherapieschulen