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

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)

Chicago, October 10 2006

Frans van der Helm

21 persons present in the Auditorium, during the lunch break of the 6th conference of the International Shoulder Group. Meeting is presided over by Ed Chadwick (CWRU).

1. Thanks

The ISG community wishes to thank Jules Dewald for the excellent organization of the meeting, shown by a great round of applause.