Applications

Neurological and psychiatric disorders are a major public health problem: strokes affect one in 600 people each year, neuropathic pain affects more than 7% of the population, major depression 5-10% ...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) can be used to treat these conditions by locally modulating neuronal activity with short electromagnetic pulses generated by a stimulator. Painless and non-invasive, TMS can be performed on an outpatient basis.

Many studies are investigating TMS as a new solution for other neurological or psychiatric disorders (fibromyalgia, tinnitus, algodystrophy, Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorders, addictions, anxiety, hallucinations, etc.), and new applications of TMS are expected in the coming years.

Pain Management

There is a sufficient body of evidence to accept with level A (definite efficacy) the analgesic effect of high-frequency (HF) rTMS of the primary motor cortex (M1) contralateral to the pain.

Stroke

Repetitive TMS has beneficial effects on motor recovery that can be translated to clinically meaningful improvement in disability in patients with post-stroke hemiparesis.

Major depression

TMS is effective in treating major depression with minimal side effects reported. It offers clinicians a novel alternative for the treatment of this disorder.

 

rTMS in the treatment of neuropathic pain – by par François Balanant