For most people, there’s a bit of mystery around Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). In another blog post, we discuss why so many people including medical professionals have never heard of TMS, despite its excellent safety and efficacy profiles. In this article, we use a traffic jam analogy to explain how TMS works. It rewires the brain to improve a range of mental health and wellness conditions.
You’re Not Broken
It’s no surprise that depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues wear you down. Over time, problems add up and bleed into one another, making it increasingly challenging to cope with regular life. Many people who live with a mental health issue for any period of time feel broken. We’re here to tell you that you’re not broken – you’re just stuck.
How TMS Works: Fixing A Traffic Jam
It may help to think of depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions as causing traffic jams in the brain. Maybe there’s a malfunctioning stoplight that has caused a car accident. Vehicles are backed up with few getting through the intersection. The longer you’re stuck, the more frustrating and problematic the situation becomes.
Doing TMS therapy is like deploying a team of workers to remedy the situation. They redirect traffic, fix the stoplight, and tidy up the accident site. Since this particular intersection is prone to traffic jams, they even build a new road system around the intersection. Now vehicles can easily navigate in and around the area. This is basically how TMS works.
In reality, TMS uses magnetic field energy to build new synaptical connections in the brain. In other words, neurons are communicating more and better with each other. This is called neuroplasticity, a term that describes the brain’s natural ability to adapt and heal.
Building Resilience
It might seem like TMS is about pushing happiness, calmness, or some other quality into the brain. It’s not. It’s about building resilience in the brain.
Typically, people who complete TMS therapy are better able to emotionally regulate and cope with life’s challenges. Things that negatively affected them before don’t negatively affect them anymore or as much. It’s because they’ve developed the ability to cope better.
Exomind TMS
Here at Body Works Med Spa & Wellness, we use an optimized TMS device called Exomind. Compared to traditional TMS and depending on the patient, treatment schedules are significantly shorter, making it more convenient to do TMS therapy. We like to say that Exomind TMS is powerful enough to change the brain, but safe and effective enough to fit into real life.
Exomind TMS also works faster and there are no wait times to start therapy at Body Works. While we accept physician referrals, we also accept self-referrals. All of these benefits remove barriers to mental health treatment in Nova Scotia. We’re the first and only provider of optimized TMS therapy in Atlantic Canada.
Our Mission
We hope you found our explanation of how TMS works helpful. Body Works and its team of mental health professionals believe so strongly in this non-invasive, drug-free therapy that we’ve made it our mission to make optimized TMS part of mainstream medicine.
If you or someone you care about could benefit from a TMS brain re-set, get in touch. We offer free in-person and virtual consultations to determine if you’re a good candidate and answer your questions. Call 902-405-0858, email info@bodyworksmedspa.ca, or click here to book a free consultation online. We look forward to helping you.
