Meng, Weikun
Huang, Zhong
Wang, Haoyang
Wang, Duan
Luo, Zeyu
Bai, Yang
Gao, Liang http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1438-9670
Wang, Guanglin
Zhou, Zongke
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China (No. 201302007)
Sichuan Science and Technology Support Project (No. 2018SZ0145; No. 2018SZYZF000)
Article History
Received: 21 June 2019
Accepted: 24 December 2019
First Online: 31 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu/Sichuan, P. R. China. All patients provided written informed consent prior to their inclusion within the study.
: Not applicable.
: Dr. Liang Gao is a member of the editorial board of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. Other authors declare that they have no competing interests.