International Shoulder Group

The International Shoulder Group invites all its members and all interested delegates to take part in a 1-hour discussion during the up-coming ISB meeting in Cape Town, about the following two topics:

1. definition of standardized protocol for upper-limb motion analysis - a follow-up on the 2005 proposal paper: does it work? Chairman: DirkJan Veeger
2. agreement between shoulder models prediction and experimental evidences: mechanical optimality versus physiological optimality. Chairman: Jurriaan De Groot.

The discussion will take place on Wednesday, July 8th, Kremer Building, Room #4, starting at 5.45pm.
After the discussion, it might be nice to have dinner together.

To ease the organisation, please let me know (ag.cutti@inail.it) if you think you'll attend the discussion and/or dinner.

Looking forward to seeing you.
Andrea G. Cutti
DirkJan Veeger
Jurriaan De Groot

Dear Friends,

It is with great pleasure that I can inform you that the international journal "Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing" (Springer) has just published a Special Issue on Shoulder Biomechanics (Vol. 47, No. 5), gathering some of the works presented at our last meeting in Bologna. Among the papers,

Blana D et al "Combined feedforward and feedback control of a redundant, non-linear, dynamic musculoskeletal system"

and

Steenbrink F et al "Arm load magnitude affects selective shoulder muscle activation"

have been awarded with the two Young Investigator Awards sponsored by the Biomedical Engineering Group of the University of Bologna and Springer Verlag, and are "Open Access".

Kindest Regards,

Andrea G. Cutti

We are pleased to be able to announce that the next conference of the International Shoulder Group will be held at the University of Minnesota in July of 2010. Exact dates and further details will be made available in due course.

Dear Friends,

Based on your replies we got in touch with the ISB organizers to arrange a session on Shoulder Biomechanics at the ISB 2009. Moreover, we asked the organizers for a room to have a discussion about these two topics, plus others that will come:

1. Definition of standardized protocol for upper-limb motion analysis: a follow-up on the 2005 proposal paper: does it work?
2. Agreement between shoulder models prediction and experimental evidence: is it not time to start validating?

As for point 1, we think the following papers might be useful for the discussion:

• Wu et al - ISB standard
• Kontaxis et al (2009) A framework for the definition of standardized protocols for measuring upper-extremity kinematics. Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2009 Feb 4. [Epub ahead of print] - PMID: 19200628

If you have others, just write me and I'll collect the sugestions.

DirkJan also proposed having an informal breakfast or lunch with both students and senior members of the ISG. This can be a nice chance to know better each other and for students to ask questions in a very informal situation.

Finally, as now we all have received the decisions about our abstract, it would be good to know how many of us will be at the conference. For this and other suggestions, just write me.

Andrea Cutti (agcutti@alice.it)

Hi all,

The ISB meeting will be held in Capetown, South Africa, in July. Some representatives of the ISG will be attending and were wondering whether there would be interest in a special session. Therefore if you would consider the following questions we would be most grateful:

1. Are you planning to attend the conference?
2. Do you think it is a good idea to ask the organizers for a special session on shoulder and upper-extremity biomechanics?
3. Do you think it is a good idea to organize at the conference a round-table about the "definition of standard protocols for movement analysis"?

Please reply to these questions by leaving a comment to this post or emailing Andrea Cutti (agcutti@alice.it).

DirkJan Veeger and Andrea Cutti gave a seminar on upper extremity motion analysis at the ESMAC conference in Turkey in September. You can view and download the presentations here. Andrea's slides are attached as pdf files, and DirkJan's slides can be viewed online here.

The ISG Constitution distributed after the Bologna meeting has been accepted by the members. The result was unanimous, albeit with a rather low turnout (12-0!). The document can be found here.

After this year's very successful meeting in Bologna, we are still looking for a site for the 2010 meeting of the ISG. We try to switch between continents, which implies that the 2010 meeting should preferably take place outside Europe, for instance somewhere in the Americas. There is a tentative offer from Minneapolis, but other offers are still welcome!

If you would like to host the 2010 ISG meeting, please let us know before October 1st. This can be done by sending an email to: H_E_J_Veeger@fbw.vu.nl which should include a brief description of your plan, such as place, time, and facilities.

by Frans van der Helm.

Bologna, Italy. July 10-12.

About 30 attendants are present.

1. Opening (17.24h)
2. Minutes of last meeting (hand-out), also here
   1. Accepted without changes
3. ISG constitution (hand-out)
   1. Explanation by DirkJan Veeger about the most important items. Constitution will be mailed for definite voting.
4. Membership update (Ed Chadwick)
   1. Anybody registering at website is member
   2. Membership gone up from 150 (2 years ago) to 200 now.
5. Data and software sharing via website (Ed)
   1. Any data or software is welcome.
   2. Also forum for discussion is available
   3. Some overlap with BIOMCH-L might occur
6. Update current meeting
   1. Papers from present conference will be published by Springer.
   2. Limited number of papers, Andrea Cutti will make a selection.
7. Data and location of next meeting
   1. No offers yet
   2. Next meeting is intended to be held in North America.
   3. Paula Ludewig suggests to consider Minnesota. No definitive offer yet.
   4. Meeting will be small (< 100 participants, no parallel sessions, informal get-together)
   5. Current meeting is 2.5 days, 2 days might be too short, suggestion by Cutti is to have a 3 day meeting. That will be considered.
8. Elections needed in 2 years
   1. Dirkjan suggests that members do not have to do too much.
   2. Ed maintains the website, which is probably the largest effort
   3. Other members mainly participate in e-mail discussions
9. No other questions asked.
10. Meeting closed (17.44h)

Dear Friends,

In case:

1. your research activity has been financed by U.S. NIH, and
2. you are about to submit a paper for the issue of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC) dedicated to the conference

you may be interested to know the position of Springer regarding the NIH request to deposit the final manuscript of your journal articles in PubMed Central (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/).

Here (pdf) you can find the details of Springer’s position, which appears very positive, with two possible options!

Kind Regards,

Andrea G. Cutti