About the Authors

Petra I. Baeumler

Petra.Baeumler@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Johannes Fleckenstein

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Shin Takayama

Affiliation Department of Traditional Asian Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Michael Simang

Affiliations Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, Institute for Medical Information Sciences, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Takashi Seki

Affiliation Department of Traditional Asian Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Dominik Irnich

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

All authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PIB JF ST DI TS MS. Performed the experiments: PIB JF ST. Analyzed the data: PIB JF DI MS ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PIB JF DI MS. Wrote the paper: PIB JF ST DI TS MS.