Figure 5.

(A) The degree of apical vertebral body wedging was assessed at first erect (FE) and compared with the 2-y (YR2) wedge. (B) Vertebral body squaring (VBSQ) quantifies the difference in wedging from FE to YR2, where more positive values indicate greater squaring. Immature patients showed significantly more squaring. (c) Representative immature and mature patients highlight changes in wedging. Between-group comparisons were done using a Mann-Whitney U test with Bonferroni correction (P < 0.05).