Illness	Number of cases
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	595
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	499
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	353
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	145
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	109
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	102
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.05)	69
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy cervical region (M54.12)	51
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	38
Other arthrosis (M19.01)	36

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	1.165
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	1.145
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.3)	956
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	685
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	673
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	588
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	541
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	395
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.81)	327
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	258

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

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

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
16	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*
15	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
10	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Anmerkung: Studentenseminare
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Anmerkung: Ärztlicher Direktor der Klinik: Hochschuldozent/ seit 2002 APL Professor an der Universität Frankfurt/ Main
Doctoral supervision	2 Doktorandinnen aktuell und eine Masterarbeit Uni Wien
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Anmerkung: Ärztlicher Direktor der Klinik: Journal of Orthopaedics , im Editorial Board von Clin Biomech Reviewer für verschiedene Zeitschriften Herausgabe zweier Bücher in 2016/17
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies