Sports Medicine Broadcast

Chronic Back Pain with Aclarion

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Chronic Back Pain is probably the least favorite for most clinicians, but it is one of the most reported reasons for office visits. Brent Ness joins the Sports Medicine Broadcast to discuss how Aclarion is helping provide imaging that can identify biomarkers and find where the pain is actually coming from.

Brent, recall your earliest interaction with Athletic Trainers.

My kids played sports in high school and had injuries that the AT Staff took care of.

Give us the highlights of NOCIScan

Taking info from an MRI, measures the quantity of different biomarkers within the spine and disc. 

  • Compares the biomarkers to other discs within the patient’s spine. Structural integrity and acid levels
    • Disc material can be filled with acids, which can cause pain 
    • MRI can look normal if these acids are present.
    • Nerves can grow into the disc with a herniated disc or degeneration. 
    • Disc degeneration is not just in “old” people, but also in people in their 20s, 30s, early 40s, and volleyball players
    • Gives the treating physician more information
    • Spectroscopy: same machine as MRI, different sequence that the tech would use. 1.5 or 3 T works
    • Proteoglycans  levels
    • Result reports usually take just a few minutes
    • Currently in 23 markets in the US, still a cash pay service at the moment or done through clinical trials. Working on coming to Houston 
      • How does this apply to the currently active athletic population?

      Football, hockey, pole vault, volleyball

      Ben likes to look at all of the options for Athletic Trainers.  Are there any Athletic Trainers currently employed by Aclarion?
      • Always looking for motivated people. Yes 
        • Lower-income high school Athletic Trainer – How do you feel I can best help my patients with back pain? 
        • Start with the traditional treatments, rest, ice, NSAIDs. If very painful for a long period of time, if they move on to get an MRI, ask for MRSpectroscopy or NOCIScan to see more. They get with the imaging center to ensure the tech can get a single voxel spectroscopy setup on the machine.
          • What is keeping more surgeons from adopting this type of MRI?
          • Still new, working on moving into more hospitals. Cash pay vs. insurance is a big roadblock that many surgeons face. 
          • Hopefully, one day we can work toward also being used on the knee

            • $1450 list price (usually discounted as well) – patient pay model on the website, acquire through [email protected] first

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