Erler-ZimmerSpine with Pelvis

The spine with pelvis from Erler-Zimmer is a flexible spinal column model, a natural cast of a human spine. It sits on a movable metal spiral tube that keeps the spine stable while remaining highly flexible. The flexible intervertebral discs behave like natural discs: when bent, they compress on one side and expand on the other. All bone parts are cast with anatomical accuracy and show structures, fissures, foramina and processes.

The model is tailored to manual therapy and is used in training and continuing education, patient education and demonstration. Physiotherapists, osteopaths and lecturers use it to show lordoses, kyphoses and scolioses as well as the interplay of disc, vertebral body and nerves.

• Natural cast with anatomically accurate vertebrae
• Flexible metal spiral tube for lasting mobility
• Elastic discs that respond like natural discs
• Spinal nerves and arteria vertebralis depicted
• Movable ilio-sacral joint, removable pelvis
• Height about 70 cm, low weight of around 1.8 kg

For manual therapy, the lasting mobility is decisive, because gliding and bending movements can be shown repeatedly without the model going slack. The removable pelvis extends the display to the pelvic girdle and the ilio-sacral joint. Anyone needing only the vertebral chain without a pelvis will choose the plain version; for work on the pelvis and sacroiliac joint, this model is the right pick.

saneq supplies the Erler-Zimmer spine with pelvis to practices and schools in Switzerland.