Could a quick brain zap ease Long-Term nerve pain?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age over 18 years and less than 80 years 2. Average pain intensity ≥ 4/10 on the numerical scale of the Brief Pain Inventory at screening and randomization 3. Pain present for at least 4 days per week 4. Persistent pain for at least 6 months 5. Stable pharmacological treatment for pain for at least 1 month prior to the study. 6. Peripheral or central neuropathic pain (postherpetic neuralgia, painful neuropathies, nerve lesions, radiculopathy, trigeminal neuralgia, stabilized multiple sclerosis, spinal cord lesion or stroke) fulfilling criteria for probable or definite neuropathic pain; and scoring ≥ 4 out of 10 on the DN4 questionnaire 7. Informed consent 8. Patients who can be followed for the whole duration of the study 9. Patients affiliated to social security in France Exclusion Criteria: 1. Ongoing litigation 2. Contraindication to rTMS : * implanted electronic devices and/or conductive objects near the coil: patients with an active implanted device activated or controlled by physiological signals (e.g. pacemakers, implanted cardioverter defibrillators \[ICD\], vagus nerve stimulators \[VNS\] and portable cardioverter defibrillators \[WCD\], ocular implants, deep 16 brain stimulation, drug chambers/pumps, intracardiac leads) even if the device has been removed. * Non-removable metal objects near the coil: Patients with a conductive implant, ferromagnetic or made of any other metal sensitive to magnetic fields, in the head or at a distance of less than 30 cm from the coil (e.g. cochlear implant, implanted electrodes/pacemakers, aneurysm clips or coils, stents and bullet fragments). 3. Current drug or psychoactive substance abuse (DSM V) 4. Pregnancy or lactation 5. Epilepsia or past epilepsia 6. Progressive unsable pathology (eg cancer) 7. Current psychosis according to DSM V criteria 8. Presence of other pain more severe than that justifying inclusion 9. Lack of correct completion of pain self-assessment diaries between inclusion and randomisation (at least 4 weekly pain scores over 7 days), 10. Subject unable to understand informed consent, under guardianship or curatorship 11. Patients participating in another research protocol within 30 days prior to inclusion. 12. Patient who has already received a treatment with rTMS