Experience More with Sunrise Psychiatry, How TMS Therapy Works

Experience More with Sunrise Psychiatry, How TMS Therapy Works

It’s time for another new Kansas City Spotlight. Here’s your host, Belinda Post. If you’re one of the millions of people living with depression, daily life can be a struggle. For some, medication isn’t an option or it isn’t enough. Could TMS therapy be the future of mental health treatment? Let’s take a closer look at Sunrise Psychiatry with Dr. Sunonny Elliot. Now, let’s start with the basics. What is TMS therapy and what does it stand for? So TMS stands for transcranial magnetic stimulation. It is an FDA approved treatment for major depressive disorder and various anxiety disorders since 2008. And that’s great. It’s FDA approved for treatment resistant depression. Now are there different treatment options available? Yes. Um we have fortunately seen a number of clinics start to open here in Kansas City which is great and amazing because um TMS is covered by most insuranceances at this point. The RTMS sits over one portion of the of the brain um and looks like basically a figure of eight coils what the machines are called. focuses on the exterior part of the brain and targets at a lower level of magnetic energy. Highly effective in treating major depressive disorder and anxiety. So we get that call a lot about which is better and our perspective is just find a clinic that you feel comfortable with and get the care so you can get better. That is very important to remember it’s always the patient and their care that’s the most important. So would you say for the type of treatment you do here, anyone’s a candidate? That’s a great question. Our perspective is, you know, we want to tackle depression. We want to tackle anxiety. We want to improve the quality of life for a number of people in our region that are struggling dayto-day and just doing their best. Um, we definitely want to improve the quality of life for anyone that wants to come and and see us. And so our perspective is don’t try to figure it out on your own. Just give us a call and we’ll let you know um who is going to be a good candidate or not. That’s something that we aim to do for people because the burden of the disease itself is typically hard enough. And if somebody is listening, this speaks to them, they want to get in touch with Sunrise Psychiatry. What’s the best way to do that? So, we always encourage people to look at our website or honestly just call the phone number that you see. Um, and I have a number of staff members that are eager and willing to help. All right. Well, thank you so much for your time. Thank you. This Kansas City Spotlight has been paid for by Sunrise Psychiatry. For more information, visit sunrise psych.com.

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