About the Authors

Jiang Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Orthopaedics, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jin-Yu Li

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Gui-Hua Tian

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education and Beijing, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Rui-Jin Qiu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Xue-Qian Zhao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education and Beijing, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Xue-Shi Di

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Qiao-Mei Yuan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Shui-Wen Long

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Yu Ran

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Yu-Song Jia

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

cjdzmhp@163.com (HCS); 13466584110@163.com (YSJ)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Hong-Cai Shang

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

cjdzmhp@163.com (HCS); 13466584110@163.com (YSJ)

Affiliations Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan, China, Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education and Beijing, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare they have no conflicts of interest associated with this study.