About the Authors

Nan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Nan Wang, Yimin Xie, Xiyu Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Yimin Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Nan Wang, Yimin Xie, Xiyu Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Xiyu Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Nan Wang, Yimin Xie, Xiyu Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Yawei Zheng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Zhipeng Xi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Wenqiang Xu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Rongrong Deng

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Tian Tang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

tangtian881022@126.com (TT); liuxin@njucm.edu.cn (XL)

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Xin Liu

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

tangtian881022@126.com (TT); liuxin@njucm.edu.cn (XL)

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.