rTMS Could Help Chronic Pain

Medical researchers believe that rTMS, a system used for treating depression without medication, could also turn be helpful for patients with chronic pain.

This idea could potentially open up a whole new area of application for rTMS (repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation).

David Brock, Medical Director at Neuronetics, Malvern, Pennsylvania, US, a company that makes the TMS equipment, likens TMS to a Swiss Army knife:

“We have figured out how to use one blade—for depression—but it has so many other potential tools.”

“We just have to figure out how to use them,”

He goes on to explain that if TMS can change the disease state of chronic pain without drugs, as it has for depression, then

“that would be a real boon to patients and society.”

While there is further research to be done, practitioners are excited to learn about further applications of the system which has helped so many people.

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a technological breakthrough in the treatment of depression. The treatment is now available in London, based at The Smart Clinics Brompton Cross (South Kensington).

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