About the Authors

Andrew Miller

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

andrew.c.miller@utah.edu (AM); James.Beck@hsc.utah.edu (JPB)

Affiliations Research, George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah School of Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Sujee Jeyapalina

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research, George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Jay Agarwal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliations Research, George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Mitchell Mansel

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

James Peter Beck

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

andrew.c.miller@utah.edu (AM); James.Beck@hsc.utah.edu (JPB)

Affiliations Research, George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

Drs Jay Agarwal, Sujee Jeyapalina and James Peter Beck currently own patents for percutaneous implant systems with respect to the design used in the current study. Also, Drs. Jay Agarwal and James Peter Beck were design surgeons for the DJO Surgical (POP) devices used in the associated clinical trial. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.