About the Authors

Makoto Suzuki

mak-suzu@nuhw.ac.jp

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan

Yuko Sugimura

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kawasaki Municipal Tama Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

Sumio Yamada

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Science, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Yoshitsugu Omori

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, St. Marianna University, Yokohama City Seibu Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Masaaki Miyamoto

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fuchinobe General Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan

Jun-ichi Yamamoto

Affiliation Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University, Minato-ku, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS YS SY JY. Performed the experiments: MS YS YO MM. Analyzed the data: MS YS YO MM. Wrote the paper: MS SY JY.