Illness	Number of cases
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	263
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	231
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	71
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy cervical region (M47.22)	28
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	27
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	21
Postprocedural musculoskeletal disorders not elsewhere classified - Postlaminectomy syndrome not elsewhere classified (M96.1)	21
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M47.27)	17
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	17
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	14

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.0x)	246
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	197
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	162
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.02)	150
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.03)	148
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.12)	105
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around the autonomic (sympathetic) nervous system (8-916.02)	99
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.01)	91
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	70
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.00)	70

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2300 , 3753 , 2309

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
6	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
6	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”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB11	Podiatrist (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.