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Article History

Received: 17 March 2021

Accepted: 3 July 2021

First Online: 12 July 2021

Declarations

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: Tracey P Bastrom, MA: no conflicting or competing interests. Masayuki Ohashi, MD: no conflicting or competing interests. Carrie E. Bartley, MA1: no conflicting or competing interests. Michelle C. Marks, PT, MA: Employment and Board Membership with Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, during the conduct of the study; other from Scoliosis Research Society, other from Pediatric Society of North America, outside the submitted work; Burt Yaszay, MD: reports grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Fondation, during the conduct of the study; grants and personal fees from Stryker/K2M, grants and personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, grants and personal fees from Nuvasive, personal fees from Medtronic, grants and personal fees from Orthopediatrics, personal fees from Globus, grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, personal fees from Biogen, outside the submitted work; In addition, Dr. Yaszay has a patent Stryker/K2M with royalties paid. Baron S. Lonner, MD: reports grants and non-financial support from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, during the conduct of the study; grants, personal fees and other from DePuy Synthes, grants, personal fees and other from Zimmer Biomet, personal fees and non-financial support from ApiFix, other from Spine Search, other from Paradigm Spine, non-financial support from SRS Spine Deformity Journal, outside the submitted work; Paul D. Sponseller, MD: reports grants and personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, personal fees from Globus, personal fees from Orthopediatrics, outside the submitted work; Peter O. Newton, MD: reports grants and other from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, other from Rady Children's Specialists of San Diego, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from DePuy Synthes Spine, grants and other from Scoliosis Research Society, grants from EOS imaging, personal fees from Thieme Publishing, grants from NuVasive, other from International Pediatric Orthopedic Think Tank, grants, non-financial support and other from Orthopediatrics, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Stryker K2M, grants and non-financial support from Alphatech, grants from Mazor Robotics, personal fees from Pacira, personal fees from Globus Medical, grants and personal fees from Medtronic, outside the submitted work; In addition, Dr. Newton has a patent Anchoring systems and methods for correcting spinal deformities (8540754) with royalties paid to DePuy Synthes Spine, a patent Low profile spinal tethering systems (8123749) licensed to DePuy Spine, Inc., a patent Posterior spinal fixation licensed to Stryker/K2M, and a patent Posterior cervical fixation with royalties paid to Stryker/K2M.

: IRB approval was obtained for this study.

: Subjects were consented prior to collection of study data.

: The study consent forms include information about publication of tabulated data.