Peripheral Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation(rTMS) for Idiopathic Facial Nerve Palsy: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial.

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"This study was a prospective, randomized controlled trial. We intend to recruit patients diagnosed with idiopathic facial neuritis or Bell's palsy in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology of YueBei People's Hospital (Shaoguan city, Guangdong Province, China) in 2021, and they were randomly divided into rTMS group and control group. The evaluation and randomization were blind, conducted by three different researchers, so the researchers who evaluated the results were unaware of the randomization and the intervention. The clinical trial was approved by Yuebei People's Hospital Medical Ethics Committee (approval number: KY-2021-075) and this research protocol was also registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (number: ChiCTR2100052642)."