About the Authors

Junqi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Junqi Chen, Jizhou Wang

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Jizhou Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Junqi Chen, Jizhou Wang

Affiliation The First Clinical Medical School, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Yong Huang

nfhy@fimmu.com (YH); lai1023@163.com (XSL)

Affiliation School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Xinsheng Lai

nfhy@fimmu.com (YH); lai1023@163.com (XSL)

Affiliation School of Acupuncture and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Chunzhi Tang

Affiliation School of Acupuncture and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Junjun Yang

Affiliation School of Acupuncture and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Junxian Wu

Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Shantou Central Hospital, Shantou, China

Tongjun Zeng

Affiliation The First People’s Hospital of Shunde, Foshan, China

Shanshan Qu

Affiliation School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH XSL. Performed the experiments: JQC. Analyzed the data: SSQ. Wrote the paper: JQC JZW. Enrolled subjects: CZT JJY. Integrated all experiment data: TJZ JXW.