About the Authors

Jyun-Yi Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jyun-Yi Wu, Chia-Hsin Chen

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chia-Hsin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jyun-Yi Wu, Chia-Hsin Chen

Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chau-Zen Wang

Affiliations Orthopaedic Research Center, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Mei-Ling Ho

Affiliations Orthopaedic Research Center, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ming-Long Yeh

mlyeh@mail.ncku.edu.tw (MLY); yhwang@kmu.edu.tw (YHW)

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yan-Hsiung Wang

mlyeh@mail.ncku.edu.tw (MLY); yhwang@kmu.edu.tw (YHW)

Affiliations Orthopaedic Research Center, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYW CHC YHW MLY. Performed the experiments: JYW. Analyzed the data: JYW YHW MLY CHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLH CZW MLY CHC. Wrote the paper: JYW CHC YHW.