Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	74
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	26
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	20
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	18
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	10
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	7
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	6
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy thoracic region (M54.14)	4
Zoster herpes zoster (B02.2)	not specified
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids (F11.2)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	130
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	114
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	89
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	65
(9-984.7)	49
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	47
(9-984.6)	32
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.10)	21
Treatment procedure to maintain and encourage practical everyday and social skills - psychosocial intervention (9-401.22)	21
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.02)	18

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3753

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

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
51	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*
51	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
51	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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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	in Kooperation mit der Ausbildungsstätte St. Barbara-Klinik in Hamm Heessen
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Die Canisius Campus Dortmund gGmbH ist eine staatlich anerkannte Pflegeschule und gehört ebenfalls zur Kath. St. Paulus GmbH. Sie bildet für die Krankenhäuser der Kath. St. Paulus Gesellschaft, dazu gehört auch das St. Christophorus Krankenhaus, Fachpersonal in der Pflege aus.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)