Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	232
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	169
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	135
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	126
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	121
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M47.27)	86
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy sacral and sacrococcygeal region (M47.28)	59
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	48
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	22
Dorsalgia unspecified (M54.96)	19

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	568
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	355
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	336
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	334
Surgical incision into diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-830.2)	311
Operation with the smallest possible incision into the skin and minimal tissue damage (minimally invasive) (5-986.x)	245
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.31)	204
Other surgical incision into the skin or subcutaneous tissues (5-892.xa)	201
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	199
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.1x)	187

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

Number	Group
68	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*
60	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
60	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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