About the Authors

Yuxuan Cong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxuan Cong, Baohui Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation TCM Rehabilitation Department, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Baohui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxuan Cong, Baohui Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Pain Ward of Orthopedics Department of TCM, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Chen Fei

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Hong Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Zhong Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Yangjun Zhu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Yan Zhuang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Pengfei Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

pengfei_wang@163.com (PW); 13759994007@163.com (KZ)

‡ PW and KZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Kun Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

pengfei_wang@163.com (PW); 13759994007@163.com (KZ)

‡ PW and KZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.