Bethge, Matthias
Thome-Soós, Friederike
Rašo, Luka Marko
Weier, Lisa
Benninghoven, Dieter
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universität zu Lübeck
Article History
Received: 28 November 2022
Accepted: 30 April 2023
First Online: 15 May 2023
Declarations
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: The investigation conforms to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Lübeck (22–160), and participation in the study is voluntary. We obtain informed consent from all participants, i.e., all eligible participants are informed of the purpose of the study, potential benefits and risks, the right to refuse participation or withdraw consent at any time, institutional affiliation and potential competing interests of the investigators, and sources of study funding. Patient information and model consent forms are available as Additional files 3 and 4.
: This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data; hence, no consent for publication is needed.
: MB has received funding for studies on rehabilitation from the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, as well as the Federal German Pension Insurance and the Pension Insurance North, Berlin-Brandenburg and Knappschaft-Bahn-See. DB is a staff member of the rehabilitation center where the intervention is being performed. He has developed the program and is involved in the treatment. DB has received funding for studies on rehabilitation from the Association for the Promotion of Rehabilitation Research in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein, the German Pension Insurance North, and the Institute for Quality Management in Health Care. LW is a staff member of the rehabilitation center and is involved in the treatment. FTS and LMR declare that they have no competing interests.