Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	1.033
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	362
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	196
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	130
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicocranial syndrome (M53.0)	74
Dorsalgia - Pain in thoracic spine (M54.6)	73
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	35
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee - Bilateral primary osteoarthritis of knee (M17.0)	32
Other arthrosis (M19.01)	29
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	28

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of muscles, ligaments, or the skeletal system by the external application of shock waves (8-115.x)	3.622
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.x)	2.408
(1-799.0)	1.391
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	935
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	775
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	651
Measurement of the mineral content of the bone - bone density measurement (3-900)	524
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	319
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	286
Treatment of muscles, ligaments, or the skeletal system by the external application of shock waves (8-115.0)	272

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

Number	Group
17	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*
16	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
16	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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