Erler-ZimmerHand with Tendons, Nerves and Carpal Tunnel

The Hand with Tendons, Nerves and Carpal Tunnel from Erler-Zimmer is a life-size hand model that extends the hand skeleton with forearm stump by tendons, nerves and the carpal tunnel. The skeleton is flexibly mounted on wire and consists of individual bones. It shows the tendons of the superficial finger flexor and the long thumb flexor, the common tendon sheath, the carpal ligament and the median nerve. The course of the N. medianus through the carpal tunnel thus becomes directly visible.

The hand model is used in occupational and hand therapy, in training and in patient consultation. It is particularly suited to explaining how carpal tunnel syndrome develops and the narrowness beneath the carpal ligament. For information before hand surgery, it provides a tangible basis.

• life-size hand model with skeleton, tendons, nerves and carpal tunnel
• hand skeleton with forearm stump, mounted flexibly on wire
• tendons of the superficial finger flexor and the long thumb flexor
• common tendon sheath and carpal ligament depicted
• course of the N. medianus through the carpal tunnel visible
• built from individual bones, in life size

If the carpal tunnel with nerve and tendons is the focus, a model with soft-tissue depiction is the right choice; for pure osteology a hand skeleton is enough and for ligament guidance a ligament model. The flexible wire mounting lets you move the fingers and show the flexor tendons in action. This conveys the link between movement and the course of the nerve well.

You can get this hand model from saneq for occupational therapy, hand surgery and teaching.