Celebrations of ISB 50 years anniversary are starting.
Over the next months and until our next ISB Congress in Fukuoka 2023, ISB Now will highlight the activities ISB is promoting to celebrate this milestone! Make sure you are up to date on the activities!
This is the committee enrolled in the planning of the celebration activities:
Alberto Leardini, Daniel Hahn, Katherine Boyer, Jennifer Shin, Anja-Verena Behling, Brent Edwards, John Challis, Joe Hamill, Elizabeth Clarke, Felipe Carpes, Lanie Gutierrez-Farewik, Veronique Feipel
Initiatives in development:
Several initiatives are planned and in development to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Society of Biomechanics, in August 2023. Below we report just the most recent information.
- 50 years sessions at the WCB, the 9th World Congress of Biomechanics from the 10th to 14th July 2022
WCB program, Taipei, includes special moments to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ISB, as follows.
JULY 12 15:30h (UTC +8), Channel 1
ISB Affiliated Societies: Current Biomechanics in the World
Moderators: Jennifer Shin; Helen Bayne.
Speakers: Gwang-Moon Eom, Bing-Shiang Yang, Helen Bayne, and Hiroaki Hobara, Daniel Hahn
JULY 13 8:00h (UTC +8), Channel 13
ISB Recommendations and Consensus in Biomechanics Foot and Ankle Bone Reference Definitions
Moderators: Amy Lorraine Lenz and William Ledoux
Speakers: Eric Thorhauer, Karen Krüger, Sorin Siegler, and Michele Conconi
JULY 13 9:50h (UTC +8), Channel 1
ISB 50 years of International Biomechanics: Contributions to Instruments and Techniques
Advances in Gait Analysis: Moving Forwards by Looking Backwards by Brian L. Davis |
The future of movement analysis: Bridging disciplines to improve access, adherence, and analysis of mobile biomechanical tools by Melissa A. Boswell |
The History of Contemporary Neuromusculoskeletal Biomechanical Modelling by David Lloyd |
The Future of Contemporary Neuromusculoskeletal Biomechanical Modelling by Luca Modenese |
JULY 13 13:40h (UTC +8), Channel 1
ISB 50 years of International Biomechanics: Contributions to Basic and Applied Science
Evolution of knowledge in muscle mechanics: molecular mechanisms of contraction by Walter Herzog |
Past, present, and future: 50 years of discoveries into in vivo whole muscle mechanics. by Taylor JM Dick |
Performance-enhancing shoes – are they cheating? Rules and biomechanics by Toni Arndt |
The use of running footwear among elite marathon athletes during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games – the last Games with the ‘super shoe’? by Kai Wang |
JULY 13 17:20h (UTC +8), Channel 1
ISB Sponsored Plenary Lecture
Design and Manufacturing of Custom-made Implants in an Orthopedic Centre
Alberto Leardini
JULY 14 9:50h (UTC +8), Channel 13
Award Session
International Society of Biomechanics Female Research Excellence Award
Please note the start time for all sessions is UTC +8.
- ISB 50 years at ECSS
The International Society of Biomechanics goes ECSS! During this year’s conference of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) in Sevilla (Spain) there will be a celebration of the "50 YEARS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS (ISB) - A LIFELONG CONNECTION WITH SPORTS" in a special session on September 2nd, starting ime:13:15 CET*
Biomechanics is an essential part of sport science and sports have always been an essential part of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. In this special interest group session, three presentations will highlight the connection of biomechanics and the ISB with sports. First, the session will focus on muscle-tendon unit biomechanics and sports performance. With muscles being the motors of movement, which interact with their tendons, muscle-tendon unit biomechanics form the fundamental basis of sports performance and their limits. Further, muscle-tendon unit biomechanics adapt to training as well as muscle-tendon units are injury prone and therefore of great interest for sport science. Second, it will be shown how biomechanics can help to understand sports injury mechanisms, which in turn can help to prevent such injuries and to design effective treatment strategies after injury. Third, it will be shown how modelling and simulation can help to optimize sports technique. Because of the difficulty in sports measuring parameters of interest directly, simulation models provide a promising tool for sport science with great future potential. Finally, the numerous activities of ISB and how you can get involved in ISB and its activities will be briefly introduced.
The program for this special session includes the following talks:
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- MUSCLE-TENDON UNIT MECHANICS AND SPORTS PERFORMANCE by Toni Arndt / Sweden
- SPORTS INJURY BIOMECHANICS: SUCCESS STORIES, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES by Helen Bayne / South Africa
- OPTIMISATION OF SPORTS TECHNIQUES: HOW MODELLING AND SIMULATION CAN BE OUR HOLY GRAIL by Dario Cazzola / United Kingdon
Check the full information about this session and the ECSS congress at the event website
- 50th anniversary Special Issues in Journals
The 50th ISB anniversary team is working closely with the editors of ISB-affiliated journals to promote several Special Issues with publications related to the ISB anniversary. Eventually, a number of Special Issues will be prepared and will be open for paper submission. Soon the final map of journals and Special Issues will be completed, and you all will be invited to submit papers to these Issues. At the same time, any member of ISB is welcome to propose Topics and Special Issues for these or other journals.
- Digital archives
ISB is planning to create a digital environment that would make relevant photos, letters, proceedings, and other historical documents available to know and transmit the prestigious history of ISB. Eventually, proceedings of every previous conference will be included. In the upcoming months, ISB will also invite members that may want to contribute by sharing documents and relevant information to the ISB history.
- Virtual museum
Under the umbrella of the digital archive, ISB wants to create also a virtual museum to show old valuable instruments, relevant experiments, and special devices used/derived from biomechanical research activities.