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The authors declare the following financial interests\/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Peng Bo reports that the project was funded by the Shanghai Tenth People\u2019s Hospital\u2019s Research Physician Programme and technical support for the P100 Shockwave Therapy Instrument from Wikkon Precision Technologies. To ensure the independence and transparency of the study, all participants adhered to strict conflict of interest management procedures throughout the research process. The study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation of results were conducted solely by the research team, with no intervention or influence from the sponsor. Furthermore, no direct or indirect financial support was received from the sponsor by any of the researchers during the study. All potential conflicts of interest and ethical considerations have been disclosed in the manuscript. 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