What is InterStim®?

InterStim is a implantable device that we use to treat refractory overactive bladder patients. Those are patients that have urinary incontinence, they have an urge to go to the bathroom but before they make it to the restroom they leak. It's also approved for women and men, for that matter, who have urinary urgency frequency and also urinary retention. So, it's a device that we implant to treat urinary incontinence.

InterStim basically is what's a category called neuro-modulation which has been out there for a long time and basically in order for our bladder to work properly our brain has to communicate to our bladder through certain nerves and in the bladder it's the sacral nerves that communicate with the bladder.

So, what this InterStim device does is we place a lead down there that sends small electrical impulses to that nerve, basically allowing the brain to communicate better to the bladder and inhibiting a person from leaking urine when they don't want to leak urine. For most people they don't urinate unless their brain says, you know, I want to urinate. So it increases the communication between, that's probably the best way to explain it.