About the Authors

Hidenori Suzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hsuzuki@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan, Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan

Shuichi Aono

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan, Department of Pain Data Management, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan

Shinsuke Inoue

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Yasuaki Imajo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Norihiro Nishida

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Masahiro Funaba

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Hidenori Harada

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Anesthesiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Aki Mori

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Anesthesiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Mishiya Matsumoto

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Anesthesiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Fumihiro Higuchi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Psychiatry, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Shin Nakagawa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Psychiatry, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Shu Tahara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliations Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan

Satoshi Ikeda

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan

Hironori Izumi

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan

Toshihiko Taguchi

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Yamaguchi Rosai Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan

Takahiro Ushida

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Takashi Sakai

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan, Pain Management Research Institute, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.