Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	148
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	102
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	97
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	36
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	33
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	30
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	28
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	28
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	24
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	23

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	1.142
Use of an X-ray imaging converter that calculates three dimensional images from two dimensional data (3-996)	485
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	464
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	417
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	365
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	264
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	226
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.x)	220
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	190
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	179

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3755

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
No participation

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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
118	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*
68	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
50	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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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)