International Shoulder Group

ISG 2010
http://www.inail-starter.org/ISG2010.html
July 25-27, 2010
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Student Travel Award Announcement

1. Three $500.00 travel awards will be made available to students to attend ISG 2010 in Minneapolis.

2. Students receiving funding will be expected to present a current research project at the meeting in a special student platform session.

3. Students wishing to compete for a travel award will submit a cover letter and short essay explaining their goals while at the meeting and how attendance at the meeting will be benefit them as a student. The essay is limited to one typed page. Preference will be given to students who would not otherwise attend the meeting.

4. The cover letter should include the applicant's name, contact information including email, the institution you are attending and advisor you are working with, the general area of your dissertation work, and your current stage of degree progress.

5. Members of the current Board of Directors and the Organizing Committee of the 2010 meeting will select the award winners.

6. Applications are due March 20th, with notification of awards anticipated by April 1st. If accepted, applicants will be required to submit an abstract of their presentation using the conference template no later than May 1st. Reimbursement of award amounts will be issued at the meeting.

7. Submit the application materials by email as pdf files to John Borstad, John.Borstad@osumc.edu.

The deadline for submission of abstracts for ISG2010 has been extended to February 5th. Abstracts should be sent to sark0056@umn.edu by this date. More details can be found on the conference website: http://www.inail-starter.org/ISG2010.html.

Also, see the attached flyer.

You are invited to submit abstracts for presentation at the 2010 ISG conference. Abstracts in all areas of shoulder biomechanics are of interest including basic science, engineering, and clinical science.

For further details and to download an abstract template, go to http://www.inail-starter.org/ISG2010.html. The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 15th 2010.

The following dates for the 2010 ISG Conference in Minneapolis have been announced.

• Conference: July 25th-27th
• Opening reception July 25th
• Main conference days July 26th and 27th

Location: Coffman Union, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Other anticipated deadlines are given below. These will be confirmed in due course.

• Jan 15th, abstract submissions due
• March 1st, notice of acceptance
• Early registration before April 16th

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.