About the Authors

Aleksi Reito

aleksi.reito@fimnet.fi

Affiliation Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement, Biokatu 6b, 33900 Tampere, Finland

Olli Lainiala

Affiliation Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement, Biokatu 6b, 33900 Tampere, Finland

Petra Elo

Affiliation Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement, Biokatu 6b, 33900 Tampere, Finland

Antti Eskelinen

Affiliation Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement, Biokatu 6b, 33900 Tampere, Finland

Competing Interests

None of the authors hold any stocks or shares in an organization that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of this manuscript. None of the authors hold or are currently applying for any patents relating to the content of the manuscript. AE has received a personal fee from DePuy (not related to this manuscript) and Stryker (not related to this manuscript). AR, PE and OL have no competing interests to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR AE PE. Performed the experiments: AR. Analyzed the data: AR. Wrote the paper: AR AE OL PE.