Goulet, Julien
Richard-Denis, Andréane
Petit, Yvan
Diotalevi, Lucien
Mac-Thiong, Jean-Marc http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4524-3893
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé (-)
Department of the Army (-)
Rick Hansen Institute (-)
Article History
Received: 5 November 2019
Revised: 15 March 2020
Accepted: 11 April 2020
First Online: 19 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr Goulet has received a scholarship from the Medtronic research chair in spinal trauma at Université de Montréal. Andréane Richard-Denis has received a scholarship and research grants from the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Santé, an investigator-initiated research grant from Medline Industries, and a research grant from Praxis Spinal Cord Institute. Dr Petit reports no financial disclosure. Mr Diotalevi has received a salary support from the Medtronic research chair in spinal trauma at Université de Montréal. Dr Mac-Thiong is chairholder of 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, and Vertex Pharmaceutical.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional ethical research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.