About the Authors

Tetsuhiro Shimodaira

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

tshimo@lion.co.jp

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories, Lion Corporation, Odawara, Japan

Shigeo Mikoshiba

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories, Lion Corporation, Odawara, Japan

Toru Taguchi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Physical Therapy, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Kita-ku, Niigata, Japan, Institute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Kita-ku, Niigata, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: This work was fully funded by Lion Corporation. The Lion Corporation provided support in the form of salaries for authors TS and SM. TT received technical assistance fee from Lion Corporation. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The funder had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.