About the Authors

Susumu Ota

ota-s@seijoh-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation and Care, Seijoh University, Tokai, Japan

Yukari Ogawa

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan

Hiroki Ota

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan

Tomoya Fujiwara

Affiliation Rehabilitation Center, Yachiyo Hospital, Anjo, Japan

Tadashi Sugiyama

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Japan

Akira Ochi

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation and Care, Seijoh University, Tokai, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SO YO HO. Data curation: SO YO HO. Formal analysis: SO. Funding acquisition: SO. Investigation: SO YO HO TF TS. Methodology: SO YO HO. Project administration: SO. Resources: SO. Software: SO. Supervision: SO. Validation: SO. Visualization: SO YO HO. Writing – original draft: SO. Writing – review & editing: SO AO.