What Is PrTMS?

What PrTMS-informed planning means

R Hope uses the term for a TMS planning approach that can consider EEG data, symptoms, and ongoing review before and during clinician-guided care.

Built around patient-specific brain function data
Designed to avoid a one-size-fits-all protocol
Approved and reviewed by qualified providers
What PrTMS-informed planning means
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Plain-language summary

Personalized does not mean guaranteed

Personalization describes the information and review used to prepare a plan. It does not guarantee that PrTMS will be recommended or that a patient will have a particular result.

Patients should ask which parts of the plan are supported by the device indication, which may be off-label, and how the clinician will review response and safety.

About PrTMS

An individualized alternative when standard approaches fall short

PrTMS is presented as an approach to personalizing TMS planning rather than applying one planning assumption to every patient.

It may be discussed when a patient and clinician want to consider additional brain-function and symptom information, but the evaluation still has to determine whether TMS is appropriate.

  • Personalizes TMS delivery
  • Uses biometric and symptom data together
  • Requires provider approval of the treatment plan
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Why Personalization Matters

Why patient-specific planning matters

Patients can share a diagnosis and still differ in history, symptoms, medications, risk factors, and treatment response. Those differences belong in the planning conversation.

PrTMS-informed planning considers patient-specific information, while a qualified provider remains responsible for approving the plan and explaining its limits.

EEG and Brain Function

How the page explained objective data

The page highlighted EEG as the objective side of the evaluation process. Alongside symptom surveys and neurocognitive testing, EEG offers another layer of information about cortical activity and functional disturbance.

The combination of measured data, patient-reported information, and provider review is central to how R Hope explains PrTMS-informed planning.

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