FONAR Announces UPRIGHT MRI Sale to Central California Medical Practice Dedicated to Being a Center of Excellence for the Spine

FONAR Corporation FONR announced it has sold an UPRIGHT® Multi-Position™ MRI to Bakersfield UPRIGHT MRI Center, Bakersfield, CA. Hoorman M. Melamed, MD, FAOOS, a board certified orthopaedic spine surgeon and a principal at the Bakersfield UPRIGHT MRI Center, said, "Selection of the FONAR UPRIGHT® Multi-Position™ MRI for our group was a very careful and deliberate decision. We recognize that the UPRIGHT® MRI offers capabilities beyond that of a recumbent-only MRI. The UPRIGHT® MRI allows for scanning patients weight-bearing and the dynamic positions of flexion and extension. This allows us to see and evaluate the spine under load of a patient's pathology thus enabling us to avoid under estimating a patient's pathology and therefore obtaining a better diagnosis." Another principal of Bakersfield UPRIGHT MRI Center, Afaq Kazi, MD, Board Certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, said, "My personal philosophy is that to alleviate a patient's pain, you need to find the source of that pain. Too often my patients say that their back pain occurs when they are in the weight-bearing position. Therefore it is no surprise that often the recumbent-only MRIs MISS the problem. The FONAR UPRIGHT® Multi-Position™ MRI is the answer for these patients."