Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	223
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	160
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	112
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	85
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	74
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	66
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicocranial syndrome (M53.0)	40
Dorsalgia (M54.80)	28
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	22
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.56)	18

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary treatment of patients with chronic pain, which partly takes place in hospital (8-91c.20)	1.782
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	876
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	666
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	170
Interdisciplinary investigation of pain (1-910)	113
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	69
Treatment of muscles, ligaments, or the skeletal system by the external application of shock waves (8-115.x)	62
(9-984.7)	47
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	46
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the musculoskeletal system without contrast medium (3-806)	41

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

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
46	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
46	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
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Herr Dr. med. Jens 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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	OÄ Dr. med. Sabine Strupp ist als Dozentin an der Fresenius Hochschule Köln für den Studiengang Osteopathie (B.Sc.) tätig. CA Dr. med. Jens Adermann ist an der Universität Duisburg-Essen im Rahmen der Hauptvorlesung als Dozent im Bereich Orthopädie tätig.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	In Kooperation mit mehreren Physiotherapieschulen
HB19	Nursing professionals	In Kooperation mit mehreren Krankenpflegeschulen.