International Shoulder Group

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

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

A selection of the proceedings of the ISG 2008 conference will be published as full papers in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing.

Further information will be published on the conference website at http://www.inail-starter.org/ISG2008.html by the end of August.

The proceedings of the 5th meeting of the ISG held in Portugal in 2004 have been published in Clinical Biomechanics: Volume 21, Supplement 1, 2006. The supplement also features an editorial by DirkJan Veeger and Gil Pascoal, entitled "Upper extremity biomechanics: Are we closing the gap? Proceedings of the 5th meeting of the International Shoulder Group".

held in Cleveland, Ohio, 17-18 June 2002, are available here.

held in Newcastle upon Tyne, 4-6 September 2000, can be found here.

The proceedings of this conference were published in a special issue of Clinical Biomechanics, Volume 15 (S1), 2000.

The minutes of the general meeting held at this conference are available here.

Held 26-27 August, 1997, at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

EDITORS: H.E.J. VEEGER, F.C.T. VAN DER HELM, P.M. ROZING

Previously published as ISBN90-423-0008-6 by Shaker Publishing B.V.

The minutes of the general meeting held at this conference are available here.

A STANDARDIZED PROTOCOL FOR MOTION RECORDINGS OF THE SHOULDER
Frans C.T. van der Helm, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands.

GLENOHUMERAL CONTACT FORCES DURING FIVE ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
Carolyn Anglin, Clinical Mechanics Group, Queen's University, Apps Medical Research Centre, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Canada.

A 3-D REGRESSION MODEL OF THE SCAPULO-HUMERAL RHYTHM
Jurriaan H. de Groot, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands.

A NONLINEAR,COMBINED FEEDBACK AND FEEDFORWARD, LEARNING CONTROL MODEL FOR MULTIPLE DEGREES OF FREEDOM MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEMS, APPLIED TO THE CONTROL OF A HUMAN ARM MODEL

Standardization of joint rotation, ISG proposal (2002), ISG Committee on Standardized Description of Shoulder Motion Tutorials (modified 14-1-2004)

Standardization of joint rotation, First Proposal (1997), Frans van der Helm, also published in Proceedings First Conf. Int. Shoulder Group.