Competing interests:: Maryse Bouchard reports funding from the Perioperative Services Summer Studentship Program, the Orthopaedics Innovation in Education Grant, the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America’s Quality, Safety, and Value Initiative; consulting fees from OrthoPediatrics Inc.; honoraria from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Columbia University, and the University of Calgary; and participation on the data safety monitoring board of study at SickKids Hospital. She has a patent pending on a novel clubfoot foot abduction brace bar and is co-founder and chief executive officer of OrthoFlexion Inc. No other competing interests were declared.