Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	163
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	153
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	51
Cervical disc disorders (M50.2)	51
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	31
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis lumbosacral region (M48.07)	29
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	25
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine cervical region (M42.12)	18
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.26)	15
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine lumbar region (M42.16)	13

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	546
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	224
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	220
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	167
(5-83b.70)	137
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	127
Surgical incision into diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-830.7)	126
Other operations on the spine (5-839.61)	105
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.30)	102
Surgical access to the area between the head and neck or to the cervical spine (5-030.70)	78

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

Number	Group
38	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*
4	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
4	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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