VMA-Align is a new diagnostic module and service offering within OKI’s core product VMA, or Vertebral Motion Analysis. VMA-Align gives spine surgeons an unprecedented level of data to assist in patient selection and planning for lumbar fusion surgery.
Since 2014, a growing number of clinical studies have reported on the potential importance of considering spinal alignment measurements when assessing patients for lumbar fusion surgery.
“Several well-regarded studies of lumbar fusion surgery patients have demonstrated correlations between alignment measurements and long term clinical symptoms,” said Richard Kube, MD from Prairie Spine & Pain Institute.
“In my clinical practice, alignment data can routinely change my decisions regarding patient selection, the type of surgery, and the number of levels involved.”
VMA-Align reports are included as part of standard VMA diagnostic reports and provide detailed spinal alignment measurements. Therefore, no additional workflow is required for existing VMA prescribers to access VMA-Align reports.
VMA is a new test for assessing spinal motion and instability that is often prescribed alongside MRI and Plain X-rays in the diagnostic workup of spine surgery patients. VMA, OKI’s lead product, is being adopted widely at some of the leading spine centers across the United States.
VMA-Align offers surgeons and other providers easy, “no-touch” tools to stay on the cutting edge of the new science surrounding spinal alignment.
The combined VMA / VMA-Align reports provide compelling ease-of-use by consolidating all motion, instability, and alignment data into one report page. Lumbar fusion decision making can be faster, more informed, and based on the latest science.
