Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	405
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	44
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	20
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	12
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	11
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	10
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	6
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicocranial syndrome (M53.0)	5
Benign neoplasm of other and unspecified sites (D36.1)	not specified
Disorders of autonomic nervous system (G90.51)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of muscles, ligaments, or the skeletal system by the external application of shock waves (8-115.x)	508
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	312
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	255
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	162
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	157
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	138
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.03)	114
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	114
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	78
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	74

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Department key

Department key: 2300

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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External quality assurance according to state law

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

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
35	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*
35	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
35	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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Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities