These authors contributed equally: Seyed Mohammad Ghodsi, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar.

Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Maryam Shabany, Seyed Mohammad Ghodsi & Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Maryam Shabany, Seyed Mohammad Ghodsi, Roya Habibi Arejan, Vali baigi, Zahra Ghodsi, Pouya Mahdavi Sharif, Sina Shool & Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Rehabilitation Office, State Welfare Organization of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Roya Habibi Arejan

Department of Midwifery, Tuyserkan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tuyserkan, Iran

Zahra Ghodsi

Department of Health Education & Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran

Fatemeh Rakhshani

Metabolic Disorders Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular-Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Morteza Gholami

Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Morteza Gholami

School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Pouya Mahdavi Sharif

Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sina Shool

Department of Orthopedics and Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University and the Rothman Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Alex R. Vaccaro

Department of Neurosurgery, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Visiting Professor, Spine Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar