∗Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
†Department of Joint Disease Research, 22nd Century Medical and Research Center, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
‡Department of Clinical Motor System Medicine, 22nd Century Medical and Research Center, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
§Department of Medical Research and Management for Musculoskeletal Pain, 22nd Century Medical and Research Center, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
¶Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Sensory and Motor System Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
||JCHO Tokyo Shinjuku Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
∗∗National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama, Japan.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Munehito Yoshida, MD, PhD, Wakayama Medical University, 811–1 Kimidera, Wakayama City, Wakayama 641–8509, Japan; E-mail: [email protected]
Received 3 May, 2016
Revised 26 August, 2016
Accepted 5 September, 2016
The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B20390182, B23390357, C20591737, C20591774), Young Scientists (A18689031), and Exploratory Research (19659305) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Grants-in-Aid, H17-Men-eki-009, H18-Choujyu-037, and H20-Choujyu-009 from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare; Research Aid from the Japanese Orthopedic Association; a grant from the Japanese Orthopedics and Traumatology Foundation, Inc. (No. 166); and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (C22591639) from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science; and the 2012 Wakayama Medical Award for Young Researchers funds were received in support of this work.
No relevant financial activities outside the submitted work.
