About the Authors

Patrik Olausson

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Linköping and Pain- and Rehabilitation Centre, County Council, Linköping, Sweden

Björn Gerdle

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Linköping and Pain- and Rehabilitation Centre, County Council, Linköping, Sweden

Nazdar Ghafouri

Affiliations Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Linköping and Pain- and Rehabilitation Centre, County Council, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Britt Larsson

Affiliation Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Linköping and Pain- and Rehabilitation Centre, County Council, Linköping, Sweden

Bijar Ghafouri

bijar.ghafouri@liu.se

Affiliations Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Linköping and Pain- and Rehabilitation Centre, County Council, Linköping, Sweden, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University and Centre of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, County Council, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

¶ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Conceived and designed the experiments: B. Ghafouri. Performed the experiments: B. Ghafouri PO. Analyzed the data: B. Ghafouri PO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: B. Ghafouri PO. Wrote the paper: B. Ghafouri PO B. Gerdle NG BL.