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Aclarion Appoints Nicholas Theodore, MD as Principal Investigator for CLARITY Post-Market Trial Evaluating Nociscan in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain
Nicholas Theodore, MD, FACS, FAANS, is Director of Neurosurgical Spine Center, Johns Hopkins, and Professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics and Biomedical
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[{"type":"text","content":" Nicholas Theodore, MD, FACS, FAANS, is Director of Neurosurgical Spine Center, Johns Hopkins, and Professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics and Biomedical Engineering CLARITY is a Post-market, Multi-site Trial That Will Further Evaluate the Role of Nociscan in the Diagnosis and Surgical Ttreatment of Chronic Low Back Pain. CLARITY is Targeted to Begin in the Second Half of 2023. BROOMFIELD, CO, May 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire – Aclarion, Inc., (“Aclarion” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ACON, ACONW), a healthcare technology company that is leveraging biomarkers and proprietary augmented intelligence algorithms to help physicians identify the location of chronic low back pain, announced today that Nicholas Theodore, MD, Director of Neurosurgical Spine Center at Johns Hopkins University, will serve as the Principal Investigator in a post-market, multi-site trial, that will further evaluate the role of Nociscan in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of patients suffering from chronic low back pain. “Diagnosing the source of chronic low back pain has been an industry conundrum for decades,” said Dr. Theodore. “Moreover, as clinicians, we are challenged by important limitations with alternative diagnostic tools like MRI and discography. Aclarion’s Nociscan tool has already illustrated a unique and compelling capability for objectively measuring pain-generating chemical biomarkers in the lumbar spine, and I am equally interested in how it may apply to measuring disc degeneration. I believe these innovations will become foundational to the diagnosis and treatment of chronic low back pain.” On April 4th, 2023, the European Spine Journal published a peer reviewed article titled “Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) identification of chemically painful lumbar discs leads to improved 6-, 12-, and 24-month outcomes for discogenic low back pain surgeries” by Matthew F. Gornet, MD et al. Success rates at 2 years for discogenic low back pain (DLBP) surgeries were 85% for patients whose treatment strategy was consistent with Nociscan-identified discs, a 22 percentage point improvement over patients whose treatment strategy was inconsistent with Nociscan-identified discs (85% vs. 63%; p=0.07). The results suggest that Nociscan provides valuable new information that can help physicians successfully treat DLBP. Building on the succes...