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Article History

Received: 26 September 2025

Accepted: 10 January 2026

First Online: 30 January 2026

Declarations

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: MRB, RI, JD, and SB declare that they have no conflict of interest. MB has received funding PROMPT-IA with Momentum, Mitacs Accelerate International Student Grant. Fonds de Recherche du Québec en Santé Junior-2 Salary Award (2022–2026). SP has received outside the submitted work: royalties from EOS imaging, he is a 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 the 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 at CHU Ste-Justine, and he is a member of the 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 committees 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 part of the database and to have the data collected used in ongoing research on scoliosis.

: We obtained consent from the responsible authorities to submit this scientific work.