Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Participants who can sign informed consent * Participants who have stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study * Participants receiving a LP per standard of care (SOC) need for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes only * Participants with Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) ≥ 60 Exclusion Criteria: * Participants with a past medical history of chronic headaches (≥15 days per month) or acute headaches * Participants with recent neurosurgical device implants such as ventriculoperitoneal shunt * Participants with more than one dural puncture during the same LP procedure * Participants have chronic coagulopathy with elevated prothrombin time (PT), Partial thromboplastin time (PTT), and International Normalized ration (INR). * Participants who are on active anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy unless stopped such therapy prior to LP per SOC guidance. * Participants with suspicions of raised intracranial pressure by either clinical assessment or imaging assessment or both * Participants with severe spinal column deformities, such as scoliosis. Disc diseases are not exclusion criteria * Participants with LP procedural complications that require a needle type or needle size change