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As you all know, the ISB is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its foundation. Among the numerous actions and events around this celebration, we are pleased to announce two special sessions aiming at providing an overview of the contribution of the society to the development of our discipline as well as of the future perspectives and challenges.

Warm thanks to the distinguished scientists who have accepted to contribute to these sessions.

We are also grateful to the Fukuoka Congress Organizing Committee for their assistance and flexibility with this organization.

Please see below details about each session and join us for this cellebration!

The specific date and time for each session will be advertise soon.

 

Session 1 - ISB 50 Years of International Biomechanics: History

Historical perspective of the founding of ISB

Joe Hamill (USA), Benno Nigg (Canada)

History of the JSB-ISB relationship

Mitsumasa Miyashita (Japan)

Muscle mechanics

Walter Herzog (Canada)

Sports biomechanics and modeling

Jill McNitt Gray (USA)

Human motion and Gait analysis

John Challis (USA), Brian Davis (USA)

Neuromechanics

Daniel Hahn (Germany), Catherine Disselhorst-Klug (Germany)

 

Birthday cake

 

Session 2 - ISB 50 Years of International Biomechanics: Future

Muscles Alive-how far have we come since then?

Yasuo Kawakami (Japan)

New perspectives in tendon biomechanics

Taija FInni (Finland)

The future of Gait analysis and Human motion analysis

To be announced

Neuromusculoskeletal biomechanical modeling and Neuromechanics

To be announced

The digital human and artificial intelligence

Mitsunori Tada (Japan)

Internet of things and remote monitoring, field monitoring

Kamiar Aminian (Switzerland)

Data, privacy and the future

Jacqueline Alderson (Australia)