About the Authors

Takahiro Maeda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Hiroshi Hashizume

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Hashizume, Noriko Yoshimura

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

hashizum@wakayama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Noriko Yoshimura

Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroshi Hashizume, Noriko Yoshimura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine for Locomotive Organ Disorders, 22nd Century Medical and Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Oka

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Research and Management for Musculoskeletal Pain, 22nd Century Medical and Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuyu Ishimoto

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Keiji Nagata

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Masanari Takami

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Shunji Tsutsui

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Hiroshi Iwasaki

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Akihito Minamide

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Yukihiro Nakagawa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Yasutsugu Yukawa

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Shigeyuki Muraki

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine for Locomotive Organ Disorders, 22nd Century Medical and Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sakae Tanaka

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Yamada

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Munehito Yoshida

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sumiya Orthopaedic Hospital, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.