About the Authors

Christoph Ahlgrim

christoph.ahlgrim@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitative and Preventive Sports Medicine, Freiburg University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Torben Pottgiesser

Current address: University Heart Center Freiburg, Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Freiburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitative and Preventive Sports Medicine, Freiburg University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Thomas Sander

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitative and Preventive Sports Medicine, Freiburg University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Yorck Olaf Schumacher

Affiliation Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

Manfred W. Baumstark

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitative and Preventive Sports Medicine, Freiburg University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP TS CA MWB. Performed the experiments: TP TS MWB. Analyzed the data: CA MWB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP MWB. Wrote the paper: CA TP TS YOS MWB.