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Clinical Study Overview

The main purpose of this study is to determine whether the KINEGRAPH VMA can accurately and reliably detect spinal instability, a spine disease that is often treated with spine surgery. The study will take movies of your spine using a fluoroscope (a type of x-ray machine). Current methods for measuring spinal instability produce variable results and can usually detect only extreme cases of spinal instability. Often, these methods falsely detect cases of spinal instability that lead to unnecessary surgery. In other cases, these methods do not detect any instability at all even though there is a very high likelihood that it is present.

Because a small study conducted in the U.K. has produced results that suggest this new diagnostic imaging test may be more accurate than current methods, we would like to see if these results can be confirmed with a larger age-balanced study based in the U.S.A.