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The authors report the following potential conflicts of interest or sources of funding: Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Restorative Medicine (ITC RC/IHK/4/7) funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission (Hong Kong). ICMJE author disclosure forms are available for this article online, as supplementary material.
Ashley Cheuk Hei Ang and Doris Wong contributed equally to this article.