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Recipients of ISB Travel Grants are required to submit a brief report after completing their travel. This list below provides access to a selection of these reports.

This page provides access to standardization proposals by the ISB standardization committee, and the various subcommittees, with reactions from the biomechanics comminity.

The ISB standardization committee welcomes any comments regarding the content of these documents. Public comments are preferred, and should be posted to Biomch-L. Private comments should be sent to the ISB President or the Publications Officer. If the volume of discussion increases to a certain level, we will implement a system whereby you can post your comments directly on this web page.

All documents within one category are listed in chronological order. Documents are still being added.

Foot kinematics

• ISB Proposal: A. Leardini, J. Stebbins, H. Hillstrom, P. Caravaggi, K. Deschamps, A. Arndt. ISB recommendations for skin-marker-based multi-segment foot kinematics. Journal of Biomechanics 2021; 125: 110581.  doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110581

Inverse Dynamics

• ISB Proposal: Derrick, T. R., van den Bogert, A. J., Cereatti, A., Dumas, R., Fantozzi, S., & Leardini, A. (2019). ISB recommendations on the reporting of intersegmental forces and moments during human motion analysis. Journal of Biomechanics, 109533

• isfm_installer.zip for 3-dimensional hip, knee and ankle intersegmental forces and moments during walking and running. Options for various coordinate systems, normalization parameters and internal vs external perspectives allow direct comparisons with alternate data sets. This is the companion software for the referenced Journal of Biomechanics paper.

Global coordinate systems

• ISB proposal: G. Wu & P.R. Cavanagh, J. Biomech. 28:1258-1261, 1995.

• Biomch-L discussions, September- October 1995

Whole body orientation

• ISB proposal: G. Wu & P.R. Cavanagh, J. Biomech. 28:1258-1261, 1995.
• Proposal by M.R. Yeadon (Dec. 19, 1993)

Joint coordinate systems (general)

• ISB proposal: G. Wu & P.R. Cavanagh, J. Biomech. 28:1258-1261, 1995.
• Biomch-L discussions, November 1989 - March 1992.
  Discussions between E. Grood, H.J. Woltring and others on Joint Coordinate Systems versus helical rotation representations (attutude vectors).
• Comparison of JCS and attitude vectors, using data from a turning movement. Contributed by Juan V. Dura, University of Valencia.

Ankle joint

• ISB proposal by G. Wu, S. Siegler, P. Allard, C. Kirtley, A. Leardini, D. Rosenbaum, M. Whittle, D. D'Lima, L. Cristofolini, H. Witte, O. Schmid, I. Stokes. J. Biomech. 35(4):543-548, 2002 
• Dr Baker's comments, letter to the editor, Baker R, J. Biomech. 36(2):300-302, 2003letter to the editor Baker R, J. Biomech. 36(2):300-302, 2003
• Response to Dr. Baker letter to the editor, by G. Wu, S. Siegler, P. Allard, C. Kirtley, A. Leardini, D. Rosenbaum, M. Whittle, D. D'Lima, L. Cristofolini, H. Witte, O. Schmid, I. Stokes. J. Biomech. 36(2):303-304, 2003
• ISB proposal: ISB Newsletter 59, pp.6-8, 1995.
• Biomch-L posting by Ton van den Bogert (Oct. 23, 1995)

Hip joint

• ISB proposal by G. Wu, S. Siegler, P. Allard, C. Kirtley, A. Leardini, D. Rosenbaum, M. Whittle, D. D'Lima, L. Cristofolini, H. Witte, O. Schmid, I. Stokes. J. Biomech. 35(4):543-548, 2002 
• Dr Baker's comments, letter to the editor, Baker R, J. Biomech. 36(2):300-302, 2003letter to the editor Baker R, J. Biomech. 36(2):300-302, 2003
• Response to Dr. Baker, letter to the editor, by G. Wu, S. Siegler, P. Allard, C. Kirtley, A. Leardini, D. Rosenbaum, M. Whittle, D. D'Lima, L. Cristofolini, H. Witte, O. Schmid, I. Stokes. J. Biomech. 36(2):303-304, 2003
• Proposal by the 'hip committee' (July 17, 2000)

Spine

• ISB proposal by G. Wu, S. Siegler, P. Allard, C. Kirtley, A. Leardini, D. Rosenbaum, M. Whittle, D. D'Lima, L. Cristofolini, H. Witte, O. Schmid, I. Stokes. J. Biomech. 35(4):543-548, 2002 
• Dr Baker's comments, letter to the editor, Baker R, J. Biomech. 36(2):300-302, 2003letter to the editor Baker R, J. Biomech. 36(2):300-302, 2003
• Response to Dr. Baker, letter to the editor, by G. Wu, S. Siegler, P. Allard, C. Kirtley, A. Leardini, D. Rosenbaum, M. Whittle, D. D'Lima, L. Cristofolini, H. Witte, O. Schmid, I. Stokes. J. Biomech. 36(2):303-304, 2003
• Proposal by Stokes, Skalli & Plamondon

Shoulder

• ISB proposal by G. Wu, F.C.T. van der Helm, H.E.J. Veeger, M. Makhsous, P. van Roy, C. Anglin, J. Nagels, R.K. Karduna, K. McQuade, X. Wang, F.W. Werner, B. Buchholz. J. Biomech. 38(5):981-992, 2005
  
• Proposal by Frans C.T. van der Helm
• Comments by Carolyn Anglin

Elbow joint

• ISB proposal by G. Wu, F.C.T. van der Helm, H.E.J. Veeger, M. Makhsous, P. van Roy, C. Anglin, J. Nagels, R.K. Karduna, K. McQuade, X. Wang, F.W. Werner, B. Buchholz. J. Biomech. 38(5):981-992, 2005
  
• Proposal by the 'elbow committee' (March 1996)

Wrist joint and hand

• ISB proposal by G. Wu, F.C.T. van der Helm, H.E.J. Veeger, M. Makhsous, P. van Roy, C. Anglin, J. Nagels, R.K. Karduna, K. McQuade, X. Wang, F.W. Werner, B. Buchholz. J. Biomech. 38(5):981-992, 2005
  
• Proposal by F. Werner and B. Buchholz (March 1, 1994)

Temporomandibular joint (TMJ)

• Proposal by David Dean (June 2, 1994)

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