About the Authors

Björn Gerdle

bjorn.gerdle@liu.se

Affiliation Pain and Rehabilitation Centre, and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Malin Ernberg

Affiliation Karolinska Institute, Department of Dental Medicine, Section of Orofacial Pain and Jaw Function and Scandinavian Centre for Orofacial Neuroscience (SCON), Stockholm, Sweden

Kaisa Mannerkorpi

Affiliations Section of Physiotherapy, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden

Britt Larsson

Affiliation Pain and Rehabilitation Centre, and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Eva Kosek

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Osher Centre for Integrative Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Nikolaos Christidis

Affiliation Karolinska Institute, Department of Dental Medicine, Section of Orofacial Pain and Jaw Function and Scandinavian Centre for Orofacial Neuroscience (SCON), Stockholm, Sweden

Bijar Ghafouri

Affiliation Pain and Rehabilitation Centre, and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

AFA Insurance is a commercial founder, which is owned by Sweden’s labour markets parties: the Confederation of the Swedish Enterprise, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) and The Council for Negotiation and Co-operation (PTK). They insure employees within the private sector, municipalities and county councils. AFA Insurance do not seek to generate a profit, which implies that no dividends are paid to the shareholders that support. AFA Insurance had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: B. Gerdle B. Ghafouri ME KM BL EK NC. Performed the experiments: B. Ghafouri KM ME NCH. Analyzed the data: B. Ghafouri B. Gerdle. Wrote the paper: B. Gerdle B. Ghafouri ME KM BL EK NC.