International Shoulder Group

Following a very successful 8th meeting of the International Shoulder Group in Minneapolis recently, the committee would like to thank the local organisers from the University of Minnesota for all their hard work, and the attendees for a good range of podium and poster presentations and stimulating discussions. The abstracts of all papers presented are attached here, and longer articles of selected papers will appear in a special journal issue in due course. 

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.

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.

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