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  • 1Departments of *Orthopedics and †Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; ‡Department of Orthopedics, The Fifth People's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; and §Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Upstate Medical University, State University of New York at Syracuse, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.

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