∗Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate school of Medicine, Chiba University
†Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine
‡Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Jikei Institute, Osaka
§Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Spine Care Center, Wakayama Medical University Kihoku hospital
¶Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yamaguchi University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
||Fukushima Medical University
∗∗Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Multidisciplinary Pain Center
††Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University, Tokyo
‡‡Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Fujino Orthopaedic Clinic, Shizuoka
§§Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyoto University
¶¶Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Sumihisa Orita, MD, PhD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; E-mail: [email protected]
Received 19 October, 2015
Revised 28 January, 2016
Accepted 30 January, 2016
The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).
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