If you haven’t heard about it yet, Vertebral Motion Analysis (VMA) can help you provide better patient care. Why? It could replace static, traditional X-rays and offer specific, sensitive and reliable spinal injury evaluations.
Why should you consider VMA technology for your practice?
VMA is a quantitative imaging software application that’s part of a system for assessing spinal motion used with an Alteration of Motion Segment Integrity (AOMSI) diagnostic device and a fluoroscope.
This new technology allows you to see exactly what’s happening when patients are in pain. Specifically, it detects vertebral alignment and motion in digital video images, like a movie, with a much greater detection rate than static X-rays (with no need to repeat films from improper movement). The examination is accurate, comfortable and easy for patients and providers. This is because the device’s special motion support platform optimizes alignment and range of motion during the forward and backward bending phases of a cervical examination.
Currently, the standard for taking flexion extension X-rays requires patients to bend on their own, without constraint or guidance. In contrast, VMA serves as a tactile guide to promote consistency and reliability.
Patients follow the device through a controlled flexion and extension. Padded bolsters isolate the cervical spine to stop bending at the hips. This assures the back and not the hips are in motion during imaging.
This eliminates patients having to bend on their own with their hips versus their back. Also, individual vertebral levels are stabilized to provide quantitative, objective and visual data about the patient’s specific pain generator.
Used with the assistance of a C-arm and a Motion Normalizer® patient handling and data collection device, the new technology collects data about patient lumbar and cervical bending during imaging. It allows providers to drill down to a specific level to see the spinal motion and instability. This information is recorded as a video of the patient’s motion profile and then placed in a HIPAA–compliant cloud-based storage system so the results may be accessed online.
You receive a “motion analysis” report containing graphics, charts and measurements down to the tenth of a millimeter.
This data reveals previously missed issues, especially traumatic brain disorders. You can then use this information to provide better treatments for patients. Plus, the data passes the Daubert Challenge in court which can be used to provide accurate, reliable and reproducible objective findings to med-legal professionals.
Help more patients with the latest VMA technology
VMA has been around for several years, but it has recently been updated to help today’s chiropractic and medical professionals treat more patients and grow their practices. The new VMA technology is currently available to clinics nationwide. To learn more, visit drivingforcecompany.com.
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