Shinoda, Yusuke http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5489-2751
Sawada, Ryoko
Ishibashi, Yuki
Akiyama, Toru
Zhang, Liuzhe
Hirai, Toshihide
Oka, Hiroyuki
Ohki, Takahiro
Ikegami, Masachika
Okajima, Koichi
Okuma, Tomotake
Kobayashi, Hiroshi
Goto, Takahiro
Haga, Nobuhiko
Tanaka, Sakae
Funding for this research was provided by:
KAKENHI Grans-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (15K10388)
Article History
Received: 8 April 2020
Accepted: 26 July 2020
First Online: 31 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
: This study was conducted according to the ethical guidelines for epidemiological research laid out by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The study protocol was included in a comprehensive protocol developed by the Department of Rehabilitation and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the University of Tokyo Hospital. The study was approved by the University of Tokyo Medical Research Center Ethics Committee (approval number: 2373).
: All participants were provided a means to opt out.
: The datasets during and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.