Proprio Spine Measurement Tool

Launched by DUKE UNIVERSITY · Jun 10, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is testing a new tool designed to help surgeons during spine surgery. The tool measures the spine during the operation to help the surgeon achieve the best possible alignment based on a plan made before surgery. The goal is to see if using this tool helps improve surgery results and reduces the need for additional surgeries later on.

The study is for adults aged 18 and older who are scheduled for a specific type of spine surgery that involves fusing parts of the spine together. People with spine problems like disc degeneration or spinal curvature who are having this surgery might be eligible. Participants can expect that during their surgery, the surgeon will use this new measurement tool to guide the procedure. The study will then follow their recovery to see if the tool helped improve their outcomes. Some people, like those with traumatic injuries, pregnant women, or those already in another spine surgery study, would not be eligible to join.

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Adult patients aged 18 years or older at the time of surgery
• • Type of Surgery: Consecutively scheduled patients where the measurement system will be used who will have thoracolumbosacral posterior spine surgery that includes spinal instrumentation and fusion and that consent to the study
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients treated for traumatic injury (penetrating injuries, etc.)
• • Incarcerated persons
• • Pregnant females
• • Any patient current in another trial for a new implant or technique
• • Non-Spine Related Surgeries: Patients who had surgeries for reasons other than spine-related conditions (even if they incidentally involved the spine)
• • Patients having additional surgery occurring concurrently with spine surgery
• • Patients ineligible for surgery