Testing spasticity mechanisms in chronic stroke before and after intervention with contralesional motor cortex 1 Hz rTMS and physiotherapy.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll patients gave their written informed consent for study participation. The ethics committee of Tübingen University Hospital approved the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. W.M was funded by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD) throughout the period of the project. A.R-M was supported by Eurostars Project E! 113928 SubliminalHomeRehab, the BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) (FKZ:01QE2023), and “Brain2Move” project (GFA:ID08, Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa)."