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. 2014 Nov 28;2014(11):CD009177. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009177.pub2

Lefaucheur 2006.

Methods Cross‐over trial
Participants N (intervention/control): total study size 22, of those 4 with SCI
Type of SCI: cervical level, aetiology: ischaemic, traumatic, surgical, post‐traumatic cervical syringomyelia
Type of pain: chronic intractable unilateral lower limb pain of neurogenic aetiology for 4‐7 years
Additional pain treatment: individual standard treatment
Age (years) mean/SD (range): 63/7.8 (range 48‐72)
Gender (male/female): 2/2
Country of study: France
Setting: not indicated
Interventions Experimental group: repetitive transcranial magnetic cortical stimulation (rTMS), 10 Hz (20 trains during 6 seconds with 54 second intertrain interval) or a single train during 20 minutes at 1 Hz and 90% of rTMS using an active coil (1200 pulses)
Control group: sham rTMS
Duration of intervention: 3 sessions of 20 minutes separated by at least 3 weeks
Outcomes Pain: 11‐point VAS (range 0‐10), relative change in pain level pre/post each session
Measurement time points: pre‐treatment and post‐treatment
Follow‐up measures: no
Notes Data on 3 of the 4 SCI participants were already used in previous publication (Lefaucheur 2004)