This month marks the one-year anniversary of remission for an Arkansas patient who has been battling major depression for more than 60 years, experiencing countless medications, interventions and sadly, multiple suicide attempts.
For Hot Springs resident Sandy Rasmussen, “major depression” wasn’t just a diagnosis, it was a constant companion for much of her life. That is, until she became one of the first Arkansans to receive SAINT Depression Therapy, a noninvasive, rapid-acting treatment shown to achieve remission in 79% of people with depression in just five days.
Available at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) — the first commercial site in the United States to offer SAINT and still the only provider in Arkansas and the surrounding region — this innovative therapy offered Rasmussen something that six decades of medication and other treatments never could: her life back…