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Aclarion Launches Second Clinical Utility and Economic (CLUE) Trial Site With First Surgeon in New Jersey
CLUE is a Multi-center Trial to Identify how Often Nociscan’s AI Data Changes the Initial Treatment Plan for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Dr. Justin
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[{"type":"text","content":"CLUE is a Multi-center Trial to Identify how Often Nociscan’s AI Data Changes the Initial Treatment Plan for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Dr. Justin Kubeck Will Initiate CLUE in New Jersey at Ocean Pain and Spine in Toms River BROOMFIELD, CO, Aug. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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 the expansion of the multi-center CLUE Trial to New Jersey. Justin Kubeck, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and founder of Ocean Pain and Spine in Toms River, NJ will join an expanding network of spine surgeons participating in CLUE to build a growing body of data supporting the real-world value of adding Nociscan’s AI generated data to existing diagnostic evaluation methods for the treatment of chronic low back pain. Dr. Kubeck is the second surgeon to join CLUE since the trial was announced earlier this month, joining Dr. John Keller, a neurosurgical spine surgeon in Michigan. The Company expects a steady cadence of spine surgeons to join CLUE in the coming months to rapidly provide compelling data to payers as to how frequently Nociscan has a significant impact on the decision-making process during the critical stage when surgeons are planning the optimal treatment for their patient. “I always tell new patients that we need to see what makes sense for their individual circumstances – whether it’s medication, or therapy, or ultimately, surgery,” explained Dr. Kubeck. “There is a protocol that I follow; I don’t ever just go in and do surgery. For me, developing the best treatment plan for an individual patient is very proceduralized. Once we determine the problem, then I say, ‘Here’s what you can expect, here are your options, and here is what we will decide together.’ Nociscan will be an invaluable decision support tool when evaluating diagnosis and treatment.” Globally, 266 million people suffer from degenerative spine disease and low back pain. Aclarion’s Nociscan solution is the first evidence-supported SaaS platform to noninvasively help physicians distinguish between painful and nonpainful discs in the lumbar spine. Nociscan objectively quantifies chemical biomarkers demonstrated to be as...