A Non-Invasive FDA Approved Drug-Free Therapy

The TMS THerapy system

• Is proven safe for patients with depression
• Is a breakthrough non-drug treatment for patients with depression
• Stimulates key areas of the brain that are underactive in patients with depression
• Is conducted right in the doctor’s office
• Patients are awake and alert during the treatment
• Is similar to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Patients can go back to their normal activities immediately after treatment
• In-office treatment takes 19 minutes

New Accelerated Treatment

The standard protocol for TMS therapy has been a once daily treatment spread out over 9 weeks. More recently the FDA has cleared a protocol developed at Stanford University that greatly shortened the treatment length to 5 days. Based on this protocol, TMS Huntsville offers a five-day protocol providing 40 to 50 treatments. The Stanford protocol known as SAINT demonstrated approximately 80% remission after the five-day treatment. The advantage of this protocol is that patients can experience rapid relief from depression. One disadvantage of this protocol is that insurance is currently not providing coverage and so treatment would be all out-of-pocket.