Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	200
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	100
Dorsalgia (M54.80)	100
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	81
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	74
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	54
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	34
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	22
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.55)	22
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicocranial syndrome (M53.0)	17

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	826
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	627
Interdisciplinary treatment of patients with chronic pain, which partly takes place in hospital (8-91c.20)	607
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	142
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	89
Interdisciplinary investigation of pain (1-910)	76
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	61
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	57
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the musculoskeletal system without contrast medium (3-806)	49
Treatment of muscles, ligaments, or the skeletal system by the external application of shock waves (8-115.x)	48

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

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 participation

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

Number	Group
33	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*
33	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
33	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
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Evaluation funktioneller Diagnostikverfahren HAL-Studie ICP Kinder
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Herr Dr. Adermann ist Mitherausgeber der wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift "Manuelle Medizin".
Doctoral supervision	Kontinuierlich
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Famulaturen werden in der Klinik für Manuelle Therapie angeboten.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Luxemburg und der Universität Essen-Duisburg

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit mehreren Krankenpflegeschulen.
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	In Kooperation mit mehreren Physiotherapieschulen