Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	304
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	114
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	36
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	33
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	10
Disorders of autonomic nervous system (G90.51)	4
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	4
Dorsalgia (M54.3)	4
Other headache syndromes (G44.2)	not specified
Disorders of autonomic nervous system (G90.61)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of muscles, ligaments, or the skeletal system by the external application of shock waves (8-115.x)	709
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	293
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	279
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.03)	198
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	157
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	156
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	154
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	141
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	99
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	73

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Department key

Department key: 2300

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

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2

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 participation

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

Number	Group
47	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*
47	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
47	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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Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities