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TMS TREATMENT

Transcranial
Magnetic
Stimulation

For patients who have not found relief from depression, anxiety and/or OCD with psychotherapy or medications, TMS can be a highly effective treatment.

At Inner Healing Charleston we offer a variety of TMS protocols, including accelerated TMS for depression, which can provide rapid symptom relief after only 5 days of treatment.

What is Transcranial
Magnetic Stimulation?

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a highly effective, noninvasive, brain stimulation therapy for patients who need relief from depression or OCD, but who have not found success with psychotherapy or medications.

TMS uses small magnetic fields to stimulate regions of the brain by electromagnetic induction, through a small generator coil placed over specific regions of the head.

A course of TMS treatment can significantly reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety and/or OCD for many months to years.

Understanding
the BrainsWay® System

Our TMS treatments are administered using the BrainsWay® system, also known as "deep TMS."  This TMS system has a unique coil design that ensures accurate coil placement, eliminating the need for expensive and time-consuming fMRI targeting.

Our clinic has both H1 and H7 coils, which have been FDA-approved for Treatment Resistant Depression, Depression with Anxious Features, Late-Life Depression, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).  

Accelerated iTBS protocols

For patients with treatment resistant depression who are unable to commit to a traditional 6 to 8 week long course of TMS therapy, we are able to offer accelerated TMS protocols.  Although considered "off-label," there is a robust body of medical literature supporting the use of accelerated TMS protocols for Treatment Resistant Depression.   

Accelerated TMS protocols usually consist of 5 to 10 treatments per day, consolidated over just 5 days.  In the medical literature, these protocols are just as safe and effective as traditional TMS, and tend to be much more convenient for patients.