About the Authors

Chayanin Angthong

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

chatthara@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani, Thailand

Prasit Rajbhandari

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Manmohan Memorial Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

Andrea Veljkovic

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Foot and Ankle Reconstruction/Arthroscopy & Athletic Injuries Knee and Ankle/Trauma, St. Paul's Hospital, The University of British Columbia, Footbridge Clinic, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Atthaporn Piyaphanee

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Phra Nangklao Hospital, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Sjoerd Antoine Sebastian Stufkens

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ricky Wibowo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Padjajaran University/Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

Competing Interests

Dr. Angthong reports grants from Thammasat University (grant number: ทป2/43/ 2561, year 2018), personal fees from Phoenix Surgical Equipment (Thailand) Co., Ltd, personal fees from Amgen, personal fees from THAI ADK ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED, during the conduct of the study; In addition, Dr. Angthong has a patent Manufacture protocol for the artificial total talus (Thailand patent number: 14879) issued. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.