Photopoulos, Gregory
Hurry, Jennifer
Murphy, Joshua
Brooks, Jaysson
Fitzgerald, Ryan
Louer, Craig
Shaw, Kenneth
Smit, Kevin
Miyanji, Firoz
Parent, Stefan
El-Hawary, Ron http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-6188
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Article History
Received: 2 March 2022
Accepted: 6 August 2022
First Online: 23 August 2022
Declarations
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: Gregory Photopoulos received a studentship from Dalhousie University during the conduct of the study. Jennifer Hurry has nothing to disclose. Joshua Murphy—reports personal fees from Depuy Synthes Spine, personal fees from Orthopeditrics, outside the submitted work. Jaysson Brooks—reports working as consultant with Depuy Synthes and OrthoPediatrics, outside the submitted work. Ryan Fitzgerald—reports personal fees from Medtronic, personal fees from Depuy Synthes, personal fees from Orthopediatrics, outside the submitted work. Craig Loeur has nothing to disclose. Kenneth Shaw—Committee member for AAOS and NASS. Kevin Smit—reports grants from Zimmer BioMet, grants from Medtronics, grants from SpinoModulation, outside the submitted work. Firoz Miyanji—DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company: Paid consultant; Research support. Orthopediatrics: Paid consultant. Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America: Board or committee member. Stryker: Paid consultant. Zimmer: IP royalties; Paid consultant. Stefan Parent—reports personal fees from EOS-imaging, personal fees from Spinologics, personal fees from K2M, personal fees from EOS-imaging, personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, other from Academic Research chair in spine deformities of the CHU Sainte-Justine (DePuy), grants from DePuy Synthes Spine, grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, grants from Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, grants from Scoliosis Research Society, grants from EOS imaging, grants from Canadian Foundation for Innovation, grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, grants from Fonds de recherche Québec—Santé, grants and other from Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, other from DePuy Synthes, other from Medtronic, other from Orthopaediatrics, outside the submitted work. Pediatric Spine Study Group reports grants from DePuy Synthes Spine, grants from Medtronic, grants from NuVasive, grants from Globus Medical Inc., grants from OrthoPediatrics, grants from Zimmer Biomet, grants from Pediatric Spine Foundation, grants from Stryker, outside the submitted work. Ron El-Hawary reports personal fees from Depuy Synthes Spine, personal fees from Medtronic Spine, grants from Depuy Synthes Spine, grants from Medtronic Spine, personal fees from Orthopediatrics, other from Pediatric Spine Foundation, other from Scoliosis Research Society, outside the submitted work.
: This work is a sub-study of the Pediatric Spine Study Group Registry which was approved by the Research Ethics Board at the IWK Health Centre (#1002256) in accordance with the ethical standards outlined in the Tri-Council Policy Statement and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: All research participants or their legal guardians provided written consent to be a part of the registry and have the data collected be used in ongoing research on scoliosis.
: Not applicable.