AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ortho Kinematics‚ Inc. (OKI), a privately held healthcare diagnostic company focused on spine imaging informatics, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Medtronic, giving Medtronic the ability to promote OKI’s VMA (Vertebral Motion Analysis) test to spine surgeons.
The VMA is OKI’s flagship spine diagnostic test, which recently completed a successful eighteen month limited scale initial launch. The VMA is a diagnostic test that can be prescribed as an alternative to the six million flexion/extension x-ray tests that are prescribed each year in the United States for the assessment of spinal motion and instability in the cervical and lumbar spine. The VMA has been shown in studies to produce more accurate and reproducible results than the traditional manual x-ray test, detecting spinal instability with greater sensitivity and with no decrease in specificity. Spinal instability is a condition that may contribute to back and neck pain, and is an important consideration in evaluating candidates for potential spine surgery or spine pain management injections.
Help employers find you! Check out all the jobs and post your resume.
