Are you ready to consider an alternative? Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is an exciting new therapy that can give you significant results in four to six weeks.

Without Adding Medication.

Inspire TMS Denver is at the forefront of a revolution in Mental Healthcare offering FDA Approved Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-TMS, and its latest advancement, Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation-iTBS. These therapies are an alternative to antidepressants and other mood-enhancing drugs in tackling depression. TMS and iTBS offer a fast route to relief and recovery from Depressive and Anxiety disorders with high short and long-term success rates. Inspire TMS Denver currently is achieving response (at least 50% improvement based on patient rating scales) for close to 80% of our patients and remission (complete resolution of depression based on patient rating scales) for 45% of the patients we treat.

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Is Depression Leeching Joy out of Your Life?

This lack of hope or optimism for the future weighs heavily in depression. Sadness and low mood prevail and a black cloud blocks inspiration in day-to-day activities. Some people respond positively to medication, but one-third or more of patients seeking care are resistant to antidepressants and/or struggle with intolerable side effects, further exacerbating despondency and apathy. An effective solution is available, however, through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-TMS.

Is Anxiety making your life miserable and exhausting?

Being anxious before an exam or a job interview is perfectly natural and anxiety is a survival mechanism, putting us on alert for potential difficulties or dangers. When anxiety prevents you from leaving your house, meeting friends, or causes debilitating panic attacks, however, that mechanism has become alarmingly faulty. In a truly vicious cycle, anxiety and its outcomes lead almost inevitably to depression. Discovering that you may be treatment-resistant or that your anxiety spikes at the very thought of medication has been an unforgiving checkmate until now. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation can address these symptoms.

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Are Antidepressants Making You Feel Even Worse?

Around one-third of people seeking care for depression do not respond positively to medication and often have to trial multiple medications before finding the correct balance or resigning themselves to being resistant to treatment. Many will struggle with difficult side effects as a compromise to relieve their symptoms such as:

What Is The Alternative?

Inspire TMS Denver utilizes the latest technology in neuromodulation treatment. We specialize in TMS so that we can focus our energy on perfecting this procedure and providing the best possible treatment outcome. Our team utilizes continual process improvement and patient feedback to ensure we are providing the best quality of care to our patients.

TMS is a safe, non-invasive, drug-free therapy that will treat your condition by using magnetic waves to stimulate your brain in areas responsible for emotion and mood.

TMS communicates with the brain in its own electrical ‘language’ with electromagnetic pulsing, progressively guiding the brain back to a more normal level of activity. TMS strengthens and reinforces brain circuits associated with positive mood and mental well-being. 

Inspire TMS Denver prides itself on making the most advanced treatments accessible to patients and also offers Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation-iTBS, and Accelerated TMS.  Individual treatment sessions with iTBS only last three minutes and an Accelerated TMS course consolidates treatment into five days.

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Dr. Clinch prescribes all TMS care at Inspire TMS Denver, oversees all treatments, and tailors protocols to specific patient need. He communicates with all members of a patient's care team to ensure the best combination of treatments are being provided. He is passionate about mental health care and loves empowering patients to improve their mental well-being.

He oversees all care at Inspire TMS Denver and provides psychiatric evaluation and treatment specializing in rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation).

Inspire TMS Denver believes rTMS is an underutilized treatment approach and is committed to educating the community about rTMS. It is safe, non-invasive and has no systemic side effects that can commonly be seen with medications. Our shared mission at Inspire TMS Denver is to treat every individual with compassion and respect, to alleviate mental illness and improve the mental wellbeing of our community, and to inspire all we interact with to live well, dream big, and be good to one another. We respect all backgrounds and cultures and are keen to hear our patient’s stories to best guide care. During treatment, we reinforce positive wellness practices, help maximize lifestyle modifications and integrate TMS therapy into a patient’s overall mental and physical health treatment.

Education and transparency are key tenets of our care and we believe this empowers our patients to invest in their mental health and increases likelihood for treatment response. At Inspire TMS Denver, patients can rest assured that they will be informed and prepared during each step of their care. Great attention to detail and specific treatment parameters are individualized to each patient. We utilize the latest technology and secure business and medical practices to ensure privacy and confidentiality in care. All staff have been trained and certified in the safe and proper use of our TMS devices and Dr. Clinch, office staff, and technicians communicate daily on treatment progress. Our office is in an easily accessible professional office building with other medical services on-site, including primary care, mental health, and additional specialty care practices.

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Inspire TMS serves the greater Denver metropolitan area and takes all major insurance providers, Medicare, and Tricare. Dr. Clinch offers free phone consultations to answer questions and to see if TMS therapy is a viable option for patients. We complete all benefits and eligibility checks and submit prior authorizations promptly to ensure patients maximize insurance benefits and understand costs for treatment. Our billing company has years of experience working with insurers to ensure appropriate TMS coverage. We offer competitive self-pay for those needing to seek care outside insurance. We collaborate with other treatment providers to ensure TMS is right for the patient and done in conjunction with other care professionals and treatments.

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Common TMS questions

Our brains form thoughts, actions, and emotions via pathways that communicate with each other via chemical and electrical messengers.

Each type of thought, feeling, or behavior coincides with particular pathways or roads along which those signals travel.

Additional studies have been done with functional brain imaging to identify specific regions of the brain that tend to be hypoactive (underperforming) or hyperactive (overperforming). We then have targets for treatment with TMS. We can increase the activity and functioning for an underperforming area or alternatively suppress the overactivity at another area by adjusting the type of TMS stimulation.

In TMS, a magnetic coil is rested on a patient's head at a predetermined location and emits an electromagnetic field providing just enough energy to cause neurons at the surface of the brain to reach an ‘action potential’. This is a scientific term for saying the neurons switch on.

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Like dominoes, these neurons then stimulate other neurons to fire downstream of this. This roadway of neurons reaches deep areas of our brain all the way to the limbic system and back. The limbic system plays a key role in emotions and mood, but it is connected with many other areas of the brain all working in concert.  One of these connected areas along the surface of the brain has been shown to consistently be under active in depression. This is called the DLPFC (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). By targeting this small area we can tap into deeper brain circuits that control mood, anxiety, and other mental health symptoms. Some areas on this circuit are overactive and some underactive, but are all influenced by the preceding step in the chain. By accelerating neuronal activity at the DLPFC, we can correct this malfunctioning brain circuit and effectively retrain the brain to feel and process emotions more effectively.

There is a common saying of ‘neurons that fire together, wire together’. TMS technology harnesses this power to alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. This is really just the tip of the iceberg for TMS as additional research sheds more light on the right protocols and locations to target symptom relief for different malfunctioning brain circuits.

Here's where TMS shines as a treatment. A single positive event, emotion, or thought might enhance a particular pathway in the brain. If this pathway is properly stimulated repeatedly over time, positive emotions and relief of depression or anxiety symptoms can occur. But this takes time. A single TMS treatment lasting three to nineteen minutes stimulates this pathway over and over, however, delivering thousands of pulses. This magnifies response and reconditions your brain to feel less depressed and anxious.

A typical TMS course is approximately 36 sessions. Over the course of treatment, your brain hence receives around 100,000 pulses or ‘workouts.’. Now imagine practicing a golf swing, a tennis serve, or a melody on the piano 100,000 times... you'd get pretty good at it. Practice makes perfect. TMS guides this practice repetitively with no input needed from the patient. The more your brain practices these positive pathways, the more of an expert it becomes at positive thoughts and emotions. 

TMS response rate is well over 50% and this statistic is for predominantly depression treatment resistant patients. Many TMS clinics consistently report 60-70% response or higher. Full remission of depressive symptoms approaches one-half of all patients seeking care. This is a considerably higher chance for success with treatment if you are trying your third or fourth medication. And this success is obtained without potential for systemic side effects. The long-term response rates and chance for continued relief from depression at one year out are also superior to medications. 

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TMS has been studied and used to treat many other mental health conditions such as Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, Bipolar Depression, and Postpartum Depression. Learn more about TMS therapy for these conditions in our Learning Center on Other Conditions Treated with TMS. A new frontier in mental health care is definitely on the horizon. Inspire TMS Denver is excited to be a part of this future and hope you will consider TMS therapy if you are suffering from treatment resistant mental health symptoms. Reach out to us to see about a free phone consultation.