Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
A new medical treatment office will open in Colfax this week, following an open house Thursday for Northwest Neurological TMS.
The Spokane-based practice, operated by Dr. David Greeley, will offer transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatments for depression.
“We opened a location in Colfax because the need is there,” said Todd Kinsel, practice administrator.
The non-invasive treatment was FDA-approved in 2008.
“It basically re-boots neurons to talk to each other again,” said Kinsel, noting that its aim is to eliminate the need for anti-depressant medications.
Greeley, a physcian for 27 years, began private practice in 1999. He is a third-generation doctor who went to University of Washington Medical School, followed by his neurology internship and residency at University of Wisconsin.
TMS is given as a series of treatments, 36 in total, in 20-minute sessions Monday through Friday.
“One person, one chair at a time,” Kinsel said.
An initial consultation and “mapping” with a patient will be done by Dr. Greeley and a psychiatric nurse practitioner, as well as the first treatment.
From there, a medical technician administers the rest.
The procedure involves a magnetic coil which touches the head as the patient sits in the chair.
Greeley had looked to open a branch in Pullman before a former patient helped him find the space on Canyon Street in Colfax.
Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.
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