Boston Scientific Corp has launched the Neuromodulation Learning Institute (NLI), a clinical education program and online resource center for healthcare providers to enhance their knowledge and awareness of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) technology, procedures, and techniques. The device company made the announcement during the annual meeting of the International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS).

NLI offers a broad range of hands-on and Web-based learning tools for healthcare professionals to enhance patient outcomes using Boston Scientific's Precision Plus SCS System. The system uses current delivered to the spinal cord to mask pain signals to the brain.

"The NLI offers in-depth instruction on techniques critical to successful patient outcomes with SCS," says Thomas Simopoulos, MD, director of the Interventional Pain Service at the Arnold Pain Management Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. "The new iPhone/iPad app is an excellent tool for training current and prospective pain physicians on spinal cord stimulation."

NLI sponsors live classroom and peer-to-peer educational opportunities showcasing basic and advanced SCS procedures and techniques. It also offers the first and only SCS mobile simulator system, STIM Lab. NLI members can interact with healthcare professionals and gain access to experienced chronic pain specialists and spine surgeons.

To complement these learning tools, the company also introduced its NLI iPhone/iPad app, an industry-first educational resource for healthcare providers using SCS to manage patients with chronic pain. It features surgical technique videos and access to a comprehensive SCS textbook, Spinal Cord Stimulation: Percutaneous Implantation Techniques, written by Paul Kries, MD, and Scott Fishman, MD.  

For additional information and to review the NLI's clinical training and educational offerings, visit www.NeuromodLearning.com.  Healthcare providers may download the NLI iPhone/iPad app for free at www.NeuromodLearning.com/app and activate it by obtaining a unique passcode from their local Boston Scientific Neuromodulation representative.