About the Authors

Liang-Cheng Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang-Cheng Chen, Cheng-Wen Ho, Chia-Hung Sun, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Tsung-Ying Li, Feng-Mei Shih, Yung-Tsan Wu

Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital, Hualien County, Taiwan, Republic of China

Cheng-Wen Ho

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang-Cheng Chen, Cheng-Wen Ho, Chia-Hung Sun, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Tsung-Ying Li, Feng-Mei Shih, Yung-Tsan Wu

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Aerospace Medicine, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chia-Hung Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang-Cheng Chen, Cheng-Wen Ho, Chia-Hung Sun, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Tsung-Ying Li, Feng-Mei Shih, Yung-Tsan Wu

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jiunn-Tay Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang-Cheng Chen, Cheng-Wen Ho, Chia-Hung Sun, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Tsung-Ying Li, Feng-Mei Shih, Yung-Tsan Wu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tsung-Ying Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang-Cheng Chen, Cheng-Wen Ho, Chia-Hung Sun, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Tsung-Ying Li, Feng-Mei Shih, Yung-Tsan Wu

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Feng-Mei Shih

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang-Cheng Chen, Cheng-Wen Ho, Chia-Hung Sun, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Tsung-Ying Li, Feng-Mei Shih, Yung-Tsan Wu

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yung-Tsan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang-Cheng Chen, Cheng-Wen Ho, Chia-Hung Sun, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Tsung-Ying Li, Feng-Mei Shih, Yung-Tsan Wu

crwu98@gmail.com (YTW)

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LCC CWH CHS JTL TYL FMS YTW. Performed the experiments: LCC CWH CHS JTL TYL FMS YTW. Analyzed the data: LCC CWH CHS JTL TYL FMS YTW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCC CWH CHS JTL TYL FMS YTW. Wrote the paper: LCC CWH CHS JTL TYL FMS YTW.