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Stimulate

your way back to

RECOVERY

Sukumvit Hospital sucessfully helps stroke patients to
full recovery with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. hours

Golden
No one questions the fact that timely treatment averts permanent disability and death. Period
In the case of stroke and related neural blockage problems, it has been proven that
treatment within the rst 4.5 hours, more commonly known as the ‘Golden Period’,
can help patients make a speedy recovery and resume their lives in total normalcy.

However, not every patient su ering from stroke is lucky enough to receive such timely treatment. Dr. Pannawish
Wongwiwattananon, Rehabilitation Medicine at Sukumvit Hospital explained that there has been a signi cant increase in the
number of stroke patients left with numbness of the limbs, movement disorders, and many other problems associated with
motor function. According to Dr. Pannawish, there is a new treatment that is not only e ective but is also non-invasive.
This is known as TMS or Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

What is TMS?

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a
noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic elds
to stimulate nerve cells in the brain. TMS can be
used clinically to measure activity and function
of speci c brain circuits in humans. The most
robust and widely accepted use is in measuring the
connection between the primary motor cortex and
a muscle to evaluate damage from stroke, multiple
sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, movement
disorders, motor neuron disease, and injuries and
other disorders a ecting the facial, other cranial
nerves and the spinal cord. TMS has been suggested
as a means of assessing short-interval intracortical
inhibition (SICI) which measures the internal
pathways of the motor cortex.

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