Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	523
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	170
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	131
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	38
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicocranial syndrome (M53.0)	14
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified - Pain in unspecified joint (M25.50)	12
Dorsalgia - Pain in thoracic spine (M54.6)	11
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.56)	10
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.51)	9
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.55)	9

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	811
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	531
(1-931.0)	518
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.1x)	341
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.11)	212
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	117
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	93
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.02)	65
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.12)	44
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.20)	27

Further information about the department

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In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

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
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
5	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*
2	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
2	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

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General information

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB16	Dietician (m/f)	berufspraktische Ausbildung
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Berufspraktische Ausbildung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Krankenhaus Rotthalmünster
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	- Berufspraktische Ausbildung - Ausbildung zum Masseur und medizinischem Bademeister im Haus- Nachqualifizierung vom Masseur zum Physiotherapeuten mit der Medfachschule Bad Elster