We will speak with you to make sure we can meet your needs and see if TMS is right for you. After your phone session with our TMS Coordinator, you will come to our office to sign HIPAA-Compliant releases so that we can act on your behalf to obtain medication history. We take care of all this for you, no need for you to make multiple calls and visits to doctors’ offices. This information is helpful when obtaining insurance approvals as most insurance companies require a failure of between 1 and 4 antidepressants. If TMS is right for you, we will schedule an in-person consultation with Dr. Lane Cook and TMS Coordinator Terry Chumley to go over your history and explain how TMS works. You will also get to see the TMS Stimulator and chair and answer any questions you may have.
TMS is the breakthrough technology for non-drug treatment of depression and promises to be the future of psychiatric treatment—providing hope for patients for whom medication treatment and psychotherapy have failed to achieve satisfactory results. At TMS of Knoxville, we have successfully treated many patients with treatment resistant depression
