Dionne, Antoine http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4359-2467
Mac-Thiong, Jean-Marc http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4524-3893
Parent, Stefan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4854-2816
Shen, Jesse
Joncas, Julie
Barchi, Soraya
Labelle, Hubert http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9224-4840
Funding for this research was provided by:
Chair in Movement Sciences, CHU Sainte-Justine and University of Montréal
Article History
Received: 7 December 2023
Accepted: 13 April 2024
First Online: 2 May 2024
Declarations
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: AD has received a scholarship from the Medtronic Research Chair in Spinal Trauma at Université de Montréal. JMMT is chairholder of the Medtronic research chair in spinal trauma at Université de Montréal, owns stocks and is a board member in Spinologics, and has received a scholarship and research grants from the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Santé, an investigator-initiated research grant from Medline Industries, educational grants from Medtronic and Depuy-Synthes, as well as research grants from the U.S. Department of Defense—Congressionally directed medical research programs, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, Abbvie, Asahi Kasei Pharma and Vertex Pharmaceutical. 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. JS has received financial interests from Statera Medical, research grant from Scoliosis Research Society and research support from Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal. JJ, and SB declare that they have no conflict of interest. HL is the co-founder of the company Spinologics Inc.
: 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.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained for this study from CHU Sainte-Justine IRB.