About the Authors

Yi-Wen Chuang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Wen Chuang, Wen-Ming Chang

Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chia-Yi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Chang-Gung University of Science and Technology, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Wen-Ming Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Wen Chuang, Wen-Ming Chang

Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chia-Yi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Chang-Gung University of Science and Technology, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Kai-Hua Chen

Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chia-Yi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Chang-Gung University of Science and Technology, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Chang-Zern Hong

Affiliation Department of Physical therapy, HungKuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

Pey-Jium Chang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Hung-Chih Hsu

dr.tonyhsu@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chia-Yi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Chang-Gung University of Science and Technology, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCH. Performed the experiments: HCH YWC. Analyzed the data: CZH PJC KHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJC WMC. Wrote the paper: HCH YWC. Debugging: KHC. Manuscript revision: CZH PJC.