Acknowledgement
This work was supported, in part, by the "Brain Korea 21 FOUR Project", the National Research Foundation of Korea (Award number: F21SH8303039) for Department of Physical Therapy in the Graduate School of Yonsei University, and by the "Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS)" through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) (2022RIS-005).
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