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Inclusion Criteria: * Age over 18 years and less than 80 years * Chronic patients with an incomplete cervical and/or thoracic spinal cord injury (traumatic and non-traumatic) affecting upper and/or lower extremities (i.e., C4-T12 and classified as ASIA C or D) (Figure 138). * Capable and willing to provide informed consent and able to adhere to the treatment schedule * Patients who can be followed for the whole duration of the study 6.3 Exclusion criteria * Contraindication to rTMS: * past severe head trauma * history of epilepsy or ongoing epilepsy * active cerebral tumor * intracranial hypertension * implanted ferromagnetic devices such as cardiac pacemaker and neurostimulator and cochlear implants * pregnancy or lactation. * Any clinically significant or unstable medical or psychiatric disorder * Other ongoing research protocol or recent past protocol within two months before the inclusion * History of treatment with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) * Subjects protected by law (guardianship or tutelage measure) * History of substance abuse (alcohol, drugs) * Pending litigation * Impossibility to understand the protocol or to fill out the forms * Chronic use of sedative medication * Participation in another clinical trial evaluating spinal cord injury