Makhubalo, Obakeng http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0085-0876
Burger, Marilize http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2831-4960
Jakoet, Shafique http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0009-2203
Van Heukelum, Marcus http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9160-7796
le Roux, Nicholas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9115-7254
Gerafa, Muaad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6028-0759
Van der Merwe, Simone http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6892-4582
Ferreira, Nando http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0567-3373
Article History
Received: 19 June 2022
Accepted: 10 October 2022
First Online: 18 October 2022
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The authors declare that this submission is in accordance with the principles laid down by the Responsible Research Publication Position Statements as developed at the 2<sup>nd</sup> World Conference on Research Integrity in Singapore, 2010. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Stellenbosch University Ethics Committee, N18/10/125 prior to the commencement of data collection. All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
: As this is a retrospective study reviewing patient records, a waiver of consent was requested and granted by the Stellenbosch University Ethics Committee.
: I, Dr Obakeng Patial Makhubalo, give my consent for the publication of this manuscript, in its entirety, in the <i>International Orthopaedics</i> journal.