Illness	Number of cases
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	454
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	260
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	135
Other arthrosis (M19.01)	40
Shoulder lesions (M75.3)	16
Acquired deformities of fingers and toes (M20.1)	13
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	8
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	7
Other arthrosis (M19.21)	6
Other arthrosis - Primary osteoarthritis unspecified site (M19.91)	6

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	441
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	228
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.10)	212
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.a0)	130
Reconstructive operations on the tendons or ligaments of the shoulder joint by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-814.3)	108
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	107
Reconstructive operations on the tendons or ligaments of the shoulder joint by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-814.7)	90
Reconstructive operations on the tendons or ligaments of the shoulder joint (5-805.7)	85
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.4h)	80
Suturing or other operations on a tendon or a synovial sheath (5-855.72)	74

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

Number	Group
8	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*
6	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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