March 2006

NWHS submits grant proposal with Mayo Clinic

The Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies at Northwestern Health Sciences University recently submitted a grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The grant proposal was submitted in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine’s biomechanics laboratory in Rochester, Minn.

The proposal asks for $275,000 to fund a two-year pilot project with three aims: to develop automated software for tracking and quantification of segmental motion in the lumbar spine; to establish the accuracy and limitations of automated motion analysis within a spine model; and assess the reliability of the process in humans.

If the software is developed, it will investigate the effect of spinal manipulation on lumbar intersegmental motion and explore the relationship between the clinical effects of SMT on intersegmental motion changes. Ultimately the software could be used by practitioners as a diagnostic tool for patients and could guide practitioners in selecting a treatment.

Source: Northwestern Health Sciences University, www.nwhealth.edu

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