Table 2.

Showing clinical outcome of primary and secondary stroke scales at recruitment, pre, post, and mean absolute change between real rTMS group, n=47 and sham rTMS group, n=49

	mBI Mean ± SD Median (range)	NIHSS Mean ± SD Median (range)	mRS Mean ± SD Median (range)	HAMD Mean ± SD Median (range)	FMA Upper Mean ± SD Median (range)	FMA Lower Mean ± SD Median (range)
At recruitment, before run-in period (mean ± SD)
Sham	23.0±31.52	11.6±4.83	3.8±0.76	9.38±4.37	15.81±19.02	12.14±11.63
n=49	0 (0-50)	11 (8-15)	4 (3-4)	10 (6-11)	4 (0-32)	12 (0-21)
Real	19.7±34.40	12.34±4.70	3.7±0.98	8.34±4.09	13.04±21.66	8.51±11.93
n=47	0 (0-38)	12 (9-15)	4 (3-4)	8 (6-10)	1 (0-31)	1 (0-20)
P	.66	.48	.61	.22	.92	.30
Baseline, after run-in period (pre-rTMS)
Sham	83.65±18.88	5.57±2.69	2.32±0.82	5.93±3.32	46.79 ±17.06	28.53±6.01
n=49	90 (80-94)	5 (4-6)	2 (2-3)	6 (3-8)	52 (35-61)	31 (27-32)
Real	83.61±12.67	5.91±2.32	2.38±0.77	6.57±3.25	43.65±16.04	27.61±5.92
n=47	85 (79-94)	6 (4-8)	3 (2-3)	7 (4-9)	50 (28-58)	29 (25-32)
P	.99	.50	.73	.34	.38	.35
Post-rTMS score
Sham	86.30±18.92	5.08±2.77	2.18±0.88	5.34±2.81	49.00±16.64	29.73±6.10
n=49	92 (85-95)	5 (3-6)	2 (2-3)	5 (3-7)	55 (38-63)	32 (28-34)
Real	88.57±11.87	4.4±2.27	1.89±0.84	5.25±3.20	47.38±15.32	30.29±4.73
n=47	92 (82-98)	4 (3-6)	2 (1-3)	4 (3-7)	52 (33-61)	32 (29-34)
P	.75	.19	.10	.88	.71	.63
Post-rTMS score improvement (absolute change)
Sham	2.65±3.25	0.49±0.71	0.14±0.35	0.59±1.38	2.20±3.14	1.20±1.74
n=49	2 (0-3)	0 (0-1)	0 (0-0)	0 (0-1)	1 (0-3)	0 (0-2)
Real	4.96±4.06	1.51±1.18	0.49±0.50	1.32±1.30	3.72±7.67	2.68±2.68
n=47	4 (2-6)	1 (1-2)	0 (0-1)	1 (0-2)	3 (1-6)	2 (0-4)
P	<.001	<.001	.001	<.003	<.001	<.001