Article History
Received: 20 January 2025
Accepted: 13 April 2025
First Online: 4 May 2025
Declarations
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: This study did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors. The results of the current study do not constitute an endorsement of the product by the authors.
: Examples of statements to be used when ethics approval has been obtained: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Bioethics Committee of the Nippon Sport Science University (No. 018-H113). This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of Nippon Sport Science University (November, 2018/ No. 018-H113). Approval was obtained from the ethics committee of Nippon Sport Science University. The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. The questionnaire and methodology for this study was approved by the Human Research Ethics committee of the Nippon Sport Science University (Ethics approval number: 018-H113).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Patients signed informed consent regarding publishing their data and photographs.