Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	267
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	161
Spondylosis (M47.86)	159
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	141
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	137
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	83
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	71
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	64
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee - Osteoarthritis of knee unspecified (M17.9)	58
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.3)	55

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	870
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	820
Extended investigation of pain, with special equipment for monitoring and the possibility of the administration of medicines, as well as uniform follow-up of therapeutic success (1-911)	717
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	596
Optical photo and video-assisted methods for metric shape and surface representation (3-310)	440
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	402
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	234
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	207
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	196
Measurement of the mineral content of the bone - bone density measurement (3-900)	183

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2300

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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
69	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*
43	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
43	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

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Die theoretische Ausbildung erfolgt in der Verbundschule für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe der Marienhaus Kliniken GmbH im Saarland am Standort Lebach. Ausbildungsberuf Pflegeassistenz (Saarland)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals	Die theoretische Ausbildung erfolgt in der Verbundschule für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe der Marienhaus Kliniken GmbH im Saarland am Standort Lebach.
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)	Einsatz Psychiatrie / Praktisches Semester / ggf. Examen / Bildungsstätte für Sozialwesen Birkenfeld
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Die theoretische Ausbildung erfolgt im "Rheinisches Bildungszentrum für Berufe im Gesundheitswesen der Marienhauskliniken GmbH"