Elsemin, Omar
Beauséjour, Marie https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3180-3642
Lorange, Justin-Pierre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-7661
Sassine, Samuel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6175-7547
Théroux, Jean https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5883-1590
Barchi, Soraya
Joncas, Julie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4295-3382
Le May, Sylvie https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4106-6068
Fortin, Carole https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6202-4257
Aubin, Carl-Éric https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2374-008X
Parent, Stefan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4854-2816
Cobetto, Nikita
Ishimo, Marie-Claire https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4566-7955
Labelle, Hubert https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9224-4840
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2017-2024, #375116)
Article History
Received: 3 December 2024
Accepted: 28 February 2025
First Online: 20 March 2025
Change Date: 4 September 2025
Change Type: Update
Change Details: The original online version of this article was revised: In this article the author’s name Omar Elsemin was incorrectly written as Omar Elsemen.
Change Date: 2 September 2025
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43390-025-01181-1
Declarations
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: Authors OE, JPL, SB, JT, JJ, SLM, CF, NC, and MCI declare that they have no conflict of interest. Author MB received funding as Co-Principal Investigator from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Foundation Program, is the recipient of a FRQ-S salary award Junior 1 and Junior 2, has received start-up funds from CHU Sainte-Justine, Department of Surgery of Université de Montréal and from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Université de Sherbrooke. Author SS is the recipient of a Premier Scholarship from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montréal. Author CEA has received a peer-reviewed grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (industrial research chair program with Medtronic of Canada) and other funds (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) not related to the work; Author 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. Author HL received funding as Principal Investigator from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundation Program and is 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 (MP-21-2018-1756).
: 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.