International Shoulder Group

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.