Pereira-Duarte, Matias http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5652-2631
Roy-Beaudry, Marjolaine
Turgeon, Isabelle
Joncas, Julie
Mac-Thiong, Jean-Marc http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4524-3893
Labelle, Hubert http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9224-4840
Barchi, Soraya
Parent, Stefan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4854-2816
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bourse de jumelage de fonds du CHU Sainte-Justine
Article History
Received: 15 February 2023
Accepted: 15 July 2023
First Online: 2 August 2023
Declarations
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: MPD, MRB, IT, JJ, and SB declare that they have no conflict of interest. JMMT has received a peer-reviewed grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (industrial research chair program with Medtronic of Canada) related to the work, and other funds not related to the work (i.e. Discovery grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, grant from the Canada First Research Excellence Funds, and development contracts with Medtronic Spine and Biologics through the university Polytechnique Montreal); HL is he is Co-founder of the company Spinologics Inc, SP has received outside the submitted work: royalties from EOS imaging, he is Co-founder of the company Spinologics Inc., he received consultancy fees from K2M, Medtronic and DePuy Synthes Spine, he received grants from DePuy Synthes Spine, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Scoliosis Research Society, Medtronic, EOS imaging, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, Fonds de recherche Québec—Santé, grants and Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, he received fellowship support from DePuy Synthes and Medtronic, he is the holder of the Academic Chair in Pediatric Spinal Deformities of CHU Ste-Justine, he is member of speaker bureau of Orthopaediatrics.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the ethics Committee of the CHU Sainte-Justine.
: All research participants or their legal guardians provided written consent to be a part of the database and have the data collected be used in ongoing research on scoliosis.
: We obtained consent from the responsible authorities to submit this scientific work.