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Motor cortex repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in fibromyalgia: a multicentre randomised controlled trial.
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Silva VA, Baptista AF, Fonseca AS, Carneiro AM, Brunoni AR, Carrilho PEM, Lins CC, Kubota GT, Fernandes AMBL, Lapa JDS, Dos Santos LM, Sasso I, Monte-Silva K, Poindessous-Jazat F, Mori N, Miki K, Baltar A, Tanaka C, Teixeira MJ, Hosomi K, Bouhassira D, Attal N, Ciampi de Andrade DAbstract
Despite affecting 2-4% of the population worldwide, fibromyalgia often remains refractory to treatment. Here we report the first international randomised double-blind, sham-controlled trial developed to assess the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as an add-on therapy for fibromyalgia.