About the Authors

Carol S. Palackdkharry

Contributed equally to this work with: Carol S. Palackdkharry, Vincent C. Traynelis

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

dr.palackdharry@arcsology.org

Affiliation Arcsology®, Saint Charles, Illinois, United States of America

Stephanie Wottrich

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Neurology, University of Texas Dell Seton Medical Center, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Erin Dienes

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

Affiliation Arcsology®, Mead, Colorado, United States of America

Mohamad Bydon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurologic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, and Health Services Research, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Michael P. Steinmetz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Neurologic Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Vincent C. Traynelis

Contributed equally to this work with: Carol S. Palackdkharry, Vincent C. Traynelis

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

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Rush University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Palackdharry: none Stephanie Wottrich: none. Dr. Dienes: none. Dr. Bydon: none Dr. Steinmetz: Elsevier: royalties; Globus: consultant; Medtronic: honorarium; Zimmer Biomet: royalties. Dr. Traynelis: Medtronic: consultant, royalties; NuVasive: consultant This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.