If you are an adult patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in the Fairfax and Alexandria areas, NeuroStar Advanced TMS therapy may be ideal to help you safely and effectively manage your OCD symptoms.
At Genesis TMS and Wellness, we offer NeuroStar Advanced TMS therapy to help our patients manage their mental health. This program can help you manage your symptoms and settle into a healthier mental state. Speak to our specialists today to discover if your OCD can be treated by TMS therapy.
OCD can cause a range of both psychological and physical symptoms. Those with OCD may feel worried, physically dirty (even though they’re clean), compulsive, or sudden and difficult-to-control impulses.
OCD is characterized by intrusive, distressing thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) aimed at reducing anxiety, often involving themes such as contamination, checking, or a need for symmetry.
As a patient with OCD in Fairfax or Alexandria, you may be aware of the challenges of managing your condition. Sometimes, standard treatments like medication and therapy are simply not enough to help you manage your symptoms. If this sounds like you, we understand that when your treatments are not working as you need them to, your experience of OCD can severely impact your quality of life. At this point, you need other—and better—options.
We specialize in the number one doctor-recommended treatment of its kind, NeuroStar Advanced TMS therapy. This adjunct treatment can help our patients effectively manage their OCD symptoms in less than two months. In a short time frame, you can manage your OCD, and experience a brighter mood, as well as a greater desire for social engagement.
Clinical research has proven the link between OCD and the brain. Brain imaging studies have shown that OCD patients experience lowered functioning in the brain areas that regulate behavior.
In OCD patients, several brain regions are implicated, primarily within the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) loop. Key areas include the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which is involved in decision-making and risk assessment; the caudate nucleus, part of the basal ganglia, which is involved in habit formation and action inhibition; the thalamus, which relays sensory and motor signals; and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), involved in error detection and conflict resolution. In fact, the lowered function that patients experience in these brain areas is the reason why OCD symptoms can manifest the way they do.
This TMS treatment works by physically stimulating the impacted areas of your brain with targeted, highly safe electromagnetic brain waves. This technology is similar to that used in MRI treatments. By strategically activating these brain areas, NeuroStar trains your brain to improve its activity—allowing you to experience positive, enhanced effects in less than two months. During the course of your treatment, NeuroStar helps your brain to increase its activity independently, allowing you to start managing your OCD symptoms.
This treatment is conducted in a specialized program that is designed to meet your unique needs. We can see where your brain might need extra stimulation, and adjust your treatment as you complete it based on your treatment responses. This personalized method of delivery ensures that you have the best chances of achieving results.
NeuroStar Advanced TMS therapy can be an excellent treatment for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Fairfax and Alexandria who do not experience relief with medication, psychotherapy or other treatments. This treatment offers a number of advantages to our patients, given its non-surgical and non-medicinal nature. We offer this treatment in a uniquely personalized format that gives you the best chances of achieving high-quality results.
At Genesis TMS and Wellness, our expert mental health specialists truly care and we will do our best to ensure that you are set up as quickly as we can. Schedule your consultation for NeuroStar TMS therapy at one of our locations and discuss the possibilities for a better life.
