In Search of Bracing's New Crystal Ball: Commentary on an article by Prudence Wing Hang Cheung, BDSc(Hons), PhD, et al.: "Using the Proximal Femur Maturity Index at Brace Initiation for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Predicts Curve Progression Risk".

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Update This article was updated on May 14, 2024, because of a previous error. On page e17(1), the sentence that had read “Only those patients with optimal compliance with bracing (≥18 hours/day) were included, as opposed to those with ≥13 hours/day in the BrAIST study” now reads “Only those patients with optimal compliance with bracing (≥18 hours/day) were included, as opposed to those with an average of 12 hours/day in the BrAIST study.” An erratum has been published: J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2024 Jun 19;106(12):e25(1).