Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	95
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	19
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	11
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	8
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy thoracic region (M54.14)	7
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	5
Other polyneuropathies (G62.88)	4
Spondylosis (M47.82)	4
Zoster herpes zoster (B02.2)	not specified
Nerve root and plexus disorders - Phantom limb syndrome with pain (G54.6)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	148
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	57
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	53
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	52
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	46
(9-984.7)	46
(9-984.6)	21
(9-984.8)	21
Treatment procedure to maintain and encourage practical everyday and social skills - psychosocial intervention (9-401.22)	15
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	6

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3753

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

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

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ31

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

Number	Group
51	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*
51	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
51	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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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Doctoral supervision	Wir bieten im klinischen Bereich die Möglichkeit einer Promotion an. Bei Interesse wenden Sie sich bitte an die jeweilige Chefärztin, den jeweiligen Chefarzt oder den Fachbereichsleiter.
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Chefärzte und Oberärzte publizieren in diversen Fachzeitschriften.
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Für den Fachbereich spezielle Wirbelsäulen- und Neurochirurgie.
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Allgemeinchirurgie; Anästhesiologie; Gastroenterologie; Geriatrie; Kardiologie; Neurochirurgie; Notfall- u. Intensivmedizin; Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie; Pneumologie; Schmerzmedizin

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals	Die Canisius Campus Dortmund gGmbH ist eine staatlich anerkannte Pflegeschule und gehört ebenfalls zur Kath. St. Paulus GmbH. Sie bildet für die Krankenhäuser der Kath. St. Paulus Gesellschaft, dazu gehört auch das St. Christophorus Krankenhaus, Fachpersonal in der Pflege aus.
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Ausbildung von Physiotherapeuten in Kooperation mit der FHS "Gesundheit" in Bochum; Kooperation mit der"ganzheitlichorientierte Physiotherapieschule Bergkamen GmbH"(GPS).
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der Ausbildungsstätte St. Barbara-Klinik in Hamm Heesen.
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Diese Ausbildung wurde im Jahr 2020 durch die Ausbildung zur Pflegefachfrau/ zum Pflegefachmann abgelöst.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Die Canisius Campus Dortmund gGmbH ist eine staatlich anerkannte Pflegeschule und gehört ebenfalls zur Kath. St. Paulus GmbH. Sie bildet für die Krankenhäuser der Kath. St. Paulus Gesellschaft, dazu gehört auch das St. Christophorus Krankenhaus, Fachpersonal in der Pflege aus.