Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	300
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	75
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	50
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	30
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	8
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	8
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicocranial syndrome (M53.0)	7
Dorsalgia (M54.3)	4
Disorders of autonomic nervous system (G90.51)	not specified
Other diseases of spinal cord - Disease of spinal cord unspecified (G95.9)	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)	705
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	269
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	258
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	157
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.03)	149
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	133
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	124
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	119
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	112
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	77

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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

Further information

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
37	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*
37	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
37	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