About the Authors

Takahide Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kihoku Hospital, Wakayama Medical University, Katsuragi Town, Wakayama, Japan

Masatoshi Teraguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

m-tera@wakayama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Kanae Mure

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Yoshiki Asai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Aitoku Medical and Welfare Center, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Yusuke Kido

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Makiko Onishi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Takashi Shimoe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Nobuyuki Miyai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Nursing, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Yukihiro Nakagawa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kihoku Hospital, Wakayama Medical University, Katsuragi Town, Wakayama, Japan

Hiroshi Hashizume

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

‡ HY and HH are Joint senior authors.

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan, Faculty of Health and Nursing, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Hiroshi Yamada

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

‡ HY and HH are Joint senior authors.

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.