Xie, Guanli
Chen, Lidian
Yang, Shanli
Tao, Jing
Chan, Chetwyn C. H.
Heinemann, Allen W.
Cella, David
Lai, Jin-Shei
Correia, Helena
Wong, Alex W. K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
the 12th Five-Year Plan supporting project of Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2013BAI10B01)
the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, USA (H133F140037)
the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, USA (290474)
the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation,USA (542448)
Article History
Received: 31 October 2017
Accepted: 16 October 2018
First Online: 30 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: 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. Ethical approvals have been granted by the ethics committee of The Affiliated Rehabilitation Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2016KY-023-01; approval received in November, 2016). Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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