Actigraphy enhanced clinical chronic lower back pain management
Active Cooperative Agreement Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- U44NS122002
- Recipient
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Arbor Medical Innovations LLC UEI SJM7QJLP28D5
- Awarding agency
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Obligated
- $10,672,067
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 93.853 Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders
- Completion date 87% complete
- Originally
- Funding
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- $9,674,989.00 Federal
- $997,078.00 Non-federal
- Place of performance
- Saline, MI 48176, USA
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Description
- Abstract
- Effective management of patients with chronic low back pain requires accurate and reliable methods to measure the effects of treatment on both pain and function. Yet this presents a serious dilemma to clinicians, who must currently rely exclusively on retrospective self-report measures (e.g., questionnaires) to capture this information. These assessments are usually only completed each time the patient returns to the clinic, thus placing an over-reliance on patients' memories and potentially missing critical inflection points in symptom or functional trajectories. The combination of potentially biased and unreliable reporting makes this method of assessment far from optimal. We recently completed the NIH i-corps program that revealed pain specialists are in urgent need of objective data on patient functioning to guide treatment decisions. The physicians we interviewed indicated that quantitative assessment of activity levels, or actigraphy, may provide a solution because IT is a validated clinical research tool for assessing pain-related disability/function and response to treatment. The hurdles faced by existing commercial and research devices, however, have prevented the implementation of actigraphy for routine clinical care due to the technological burden for patients and clinicians (e.g., device charging, bluetooth/WI-FI pairing, required apps, syncing, analysis software), cost, and the lack of standardization in device quality and data output. Therefore, we propose to commercialize a new class of clinical-grade wearable activity monitor, called the vera band, designed specially to be integrated into healthcare workflows. The vera band will provide a low-profile, durable, ultra-low-cost wearable and supporting service that presents no technical burden to patients or clinicians and can collect accurate daily activity data. Phase i of this fast-track application will consist of both aims 1 and 2, each 1-year in duration. We will first conduct an iterative technical design and laboratory verification process, along with establishing the required technical and regulatory infrastructure to provide the proposed service (aim 1). We will then assess its usability and workflow integration and verify its technical equivalence against a leading FDA-approved actigraphy monitor used in clinical research (aim 2). By the conclusion of aim 2, we propose to obtain FDA 510(k) clearance. During phase II, we will conduct a multi- center clinical study, across four tertiary pain clinics, over a period of 3-years to determine physician satisfaction with device usability, and likelihood of clinical adoption (aim 3).
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Who received award U44NS122002?
U44NS122002 was awarded to Arbor Medical Innovations LLC by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (National Institutes of Health) on September 15, 2021.
How much is award U44NS122002 worth?
$10,672,067 has been obligated on U44NS122002: $9,674,989 in federal funding and $997,078 in non-federal funding.
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