Correction to: European Spine Journal (2022) 31:267–274 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-021-07090-x

The funding for this article was listed as the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 8187090666).

The correct funding for this study is:

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81871807).

No. 8187090666 was the received number of this subject instant of the final number.

We do apologize for the error and the inconvenience.