Texas Spine Care Center is a high-volume orthopedic spine practice with a philosophy of understanding the exact source of a patient's pain before recommending treatment
CLARITY is a prospective, randomized clinical trial designed to demonstrate Nociscan's ability to improve surgical outcomes for chronic low back pain
Nociscan® aims to become the gold standard in identifying sources of low back pain through MR Spectroscopy (MRS) and Augmented Intelligence (AI)
BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aclarion, Inc., ("Aclarion" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: ACON, ACONW), a healthcare technology company that is leveraging biomarkers and proprietary augmented intelligence (AI) algorithms to help physicians identify the location of chronic low back pain, today announced Texas Spine Care Center as a new clinical site in its CLARITY (Chronic Low bAck pain Randomized Independent Trial studY) trial. The groundbreaking CLARITY study is designed to demonstrate Nociscan's clinical and economic value in spine surgery.
Texas Spine Care Center is a San Antonio-based orthopedic spine practice with two locations dedicated exclusively to spine care. The practice offers a comprehensive range of surgical and non-surgical treatment options, with a patient care philosophy centered on understanding the precise source of a patient's pain before determining the best course of treatment. This commitment to individualized, precision care — and the shared belief that identifying the right level is foundational to achieving the right outcome — makes Texas Spine Care a natural fit for the CLARITY trial.
"At Texas Spine Care, our approach has always been rooted in one core principle — understanding the exact source of a patient's pain before we recommend any treatment. Too often in spine care, we treat what we can see on an MRI without fully accounting for what the image can't tell us. Nociscan changes that by giving us objective, chemical-level insight into which disc is actually generating pain," said Adam Bruggeman, MD, Founder and Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Texas Spine Care Center. "The CLARITY trial is an opportunity to validate that approach at scale, and we are proud to contribute to research that could meaningfully change how physicians diagnose and treat chronic low back pain."
Texas Spine Care Center joins a growing network of high-volume CLARITY trial sites including Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern Medicine, Advocate Aurora Research Institute, Texas Back Institute, Keck Medicine at USC, UHealth — University of Miami Health System, Scripps Health and Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery. The principal investigator for the trial is Dr. Nicholas Theodore, Chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.