TMS is a new, noninvasive technique that alters brain activity, specifically targeting areas associated with your symptoms.
Smart TMS offer this breakthrough treatment for PTSD.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can start after someone has been exposed to a traumatic event, including: an actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence.
This could be something that has happened to you or an event that you have witnessed.
Typical traumatic events include:
Around 50% of women and 60% of men will experience a traumatic event at some point in their lifetime.
7-8% of the population go on to suffer from PTSD after having experienced one of these traumatic events.
PTSD can begin immediately after the event or can come on weeks or months after, but will usually surface within 6 months.
There are three main symptom categories for PTSD:
Patients suffering from PTSD may relive the event over and over again in their mind. This can happen during the day in the form of a flashback or when asleep in the form of a nightmare.
These flashbacks are extremely realistic and will cause the sufferer to feel as though they are re-experiencing the event again.
They may be able to see it in their mind but will also feel the same emotions (fear) and physical sensations (sweating, smells, tastes, pain) that they felt at the time.
Patients suffering from PTSD may avoid any thoughts relating to the event by keeping their minds busy or distracting themselves with other things such as hobbies or work.
They might also begin to avoid any places or people that remind them of the event.
Patients with PTSD may feel “on edge” and alert all of the time, as though they are on the lookout for danger.
They may feel anxious and find it difficult to relax or sleep.
People around them may notice that they are jumpy, irritable or easily startled.
As there are both psychological and physiological symptoms of PTSD, there are treatment options are available for both.
rTMS is a new, noninvasive technique that alters brain activity through repeated changes of the coil’s magnetic field. This modulation effect can reach both the cortex and subcortical areas, and depending on the frequency, rTMS can either decrease (low-frequency) or increase (high-frequency) cortical excitability.
rTMS has been included in the NICE guidelines as a safe and effective treatment for depression since 2015.
Due to it’s good results, it is now also being offered as a treatment method for PTSD. Research has supported its use as a safe and effective treatment for PTSD and meta analysis has since corroborated this research.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy treatment for PTSD is available at Smart TMS Ireland, based at our clinic in Dublin.
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