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Cleveland Medical Institute is now offering Ketamine Infusion Therapy for individuals suffering.

12/19/2025

After trying multiple treatments, your first ketamine infusion brings a mix of hope and nervousness. This is a straightforward medical procedure where you remain conscious and are continuously monitored for safety.

In this blog, we walk you through every step of the process. We cover everything from preparation and medication holds to setting an intention to maximize effectiveness.

Your first ketamine infusion appointment is scheduled, and you're probably experiencing a mix of hope and nervousness. After trying multiple treatments

12/17/2025

You’ve scheduled your ketamine consultation, and it’s natural to feel anxious and worry about being judged or dismissed. This first appointment is crucial, focusing entirely on determining if treatment is safe and effective for you.

In this blog, we explain what to expect in this detailed evaluation. We cover why a thorough medication history is essential and what screening protocols ensure your safety and treatment appropriateness.

Wondering what happens at your first ketamine consultation? Learn what questions to expect and why they matter. Free consultations in Willoughby, OH.

12/12/2025

When waiting weeks for an antidepressant to work feels unbearable, it is difficult to maintain hope. Ketamine offers a fundamentally different timeline for relief—hours, not weeks.

In this blog, we explore the science behind this rapid action. We explain how ketamine targets the glutamate system to promote neural connectivity, offering a fundamentally different solution for treatment-resistant depression.

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12/10/2025

For decades, depression treatment targeted the monoamine system, leaving many without adequate relief. Ketamine changes this by working through the glutamate system, offering a fundamentally different mechanism.

In this blog, we explain how this different mechanism helps your brain build new connections. Understanding this neuroplastic process explains why relief can be observable within hours instead of weeks.

Ketamine treats depression differently than antidepressants by targeting the glutamate system. Cleveland Medical Institute explains the science.

12/05/2025

If you feel your depression worsen during the holiday season despite continued treatment, you are not imagining it. This seasonal worsening is a biological pattern that hits particularly hard when you are managing treatment resistance.

In this blog, we explore the biological reasons for seasonal worsening. We discuss how reduced daylight and circadian disruption create challenges that require different treatment mechanisms.

Already treating depression but struggling through the holidays? Learn why winter worsens symptoms and what to do. Cleveland Medical Institute explains.

12/03/2025

If your antidepressant stops working after months or years, you are not imagining it. This biological reality, often called treatment-resistant depression, means your brain needs a different approach.

In this blog, we explore the biological reasons for treatment resistance. We explain how complex factors like inflammation and the glutamate system interfere with standard medications.

Learn why antidepressant medications lose effectiveness over time and what treatment-resistant depression really means. Cleveland Medical Institute explains.

11/14/2025

Everything hurts. Your neck, shoulders, back, hips, legs. Some days it feels like someone beat you with a baseball bat while you slept. You're exhausted even though you just woke up. And when you try to explain how you feel, you watch people's eyes glaze over.

In this article, we explain why fibromyalgia is a problem of pain processing where your nervous system amplifies normal sensations, why traditional medications only help some patients, and how ketamine targets the exact receptors involved in central sensitization.

Tired of fibromyalgia pain and fatigue? Ketamine therapy works differently to reset nerve pain signals when other treatments fail. Learn more in Willoughby, OH.

11/12/2025

It started with something minor. A sprained ankle, a broken wrist, maybe even just an IV placement. You expected to heal in weeks. But instead of getting better, the pain got worse. Much worse.

In this blog, we explain what happens when your nervous system overreacts to injury and creates extreme pain out of proportion to the original problem, why traditional treatments barely touch CRPS, and how ketamine targets the specific receptors that become hyperactive in this devastating condition.

Suffer from CRPS or RSD? When other treatments fail, ketamine therapy can help reset your nervous system. Learn more from our Willoughby, OH specialist.

11/07/2025

You know the warning signs. The aura that tells you a migraine is coming. Or maybe you don't get a warning at all. The pain just arrives, making light unbearable and sound intolerable. You cancel plans again.

In this blog, we explain why migraines are a neurological condition involving central sensitization and brain dysfunction, why traditional preventive medications only reduce migraines by half even when they work, and how ketamine targets the exact receptors involved in chronic head pain.

Tired of chronic migraines? When treatments fail, ketamine therapy works differently to reset your nervous system's pain signals. Learn more in Willoughby, OH.

11/05/2025

You've tried everything. Physical therapy, medications, injections, nerve blocks. Some days you can barely get out of bed. The pain that was supposed to be temporary has become your constant companion.

In this blog, we explain why chronic pain operates differently than acute pain, why your nervous system gets stuck amplifying pain signals even after healing should have occurred, and how ketamine works through a different mechanism to help reset dysfunctional pain pathways.

Suffer from CRPS or chronic pain? Ketamine therapy works differently to reset nerve pain when other treatments fail. Learn more in Willoughby, OH.

11/02/2025

The medication that used to give you four hours of relief now barely lasts two. You're taking more pills, more frequently, and getting less relief. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you're wondering what happens when nothing works at all.

In this blog, we explain why your body develops tolerance to pain medications over time, how side effects pile up while effectiveness decreases, and why ketamine works through an entirely different mechanism that doesn't cause the same tolerance issues.

Are your pain meds failing? Learn how ketamine therapy targets the root of chronic pain, not just masking symptoms, in Willoughby, OH.

10/31/2025

Burning, shooting, electric, stabbing, pins and needles. If you live with nerve pain, you've probably used all of these words to try to explain what your body feels like to people who just can't understand.

In this blog, we explain why neuropathic pain is fundamentally different from other types of pain, why traditional pain medications barely touch nerve pain, and how ketamine targets the exact receptors that become overactive in damaged nerves.

Burning, shooting nerve pain in Cleveland? Ketamine infusion therapy treats neuropathic pain when traditional treatments fail. Expert compassionate care.

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