Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive treatment that stimulates nerves in the brain with magnetic resonance pulses.
Facts about TMS treatment:
- If a person has treatment-resistant depression and other related mental health issue. Psychiatrist may evaluate and recommend TMS depending upon the needs.
- During TMS, a person receives short, quick, and repeated bursts of magnetic stimulation which are not painful.
- TMS is used to treat depression when standard treatments such as psychiatric medications fails or development of resistance noticed .
- TMS is used to treat depression and other mental health issues when medication does not help.
- TMS is a world renowned and acknowledged scientific treatment approved by federal drug administration of USA ( FDA).
- TMS procedure has to be recommended by a mental healthcare expert doctor( Psychiatrist).
- TMS treatment requires multiple sessions that can occur 6 days a week for 4 to 6 weeks. Each session may last anywhere from 30 to 40 minutes.
- TMS is non invasive treatment and is fully safe and painless . In fact after session you can go home all by yourself and resume to normal activities
- TMS has not any known major side effects at all.
Some contraindication are there your doctor can advise about that .
At American Wellness center our team of specialists evaluate the clients very carefully and refer to the TMS treatment the clients who don’t respond to antidepressant medication and psychotherapy.