Skeletal models made for patient education and student training

Encoris manufactures clear, skeletal, medical models for patient education and medical student training

The clear skeletal models Encoris makes are used by surgeons for patient education to demonstrate the use and placement of medical implants as well as treatment plans and by medical students to train on implant placement.

Encoris vice president Jim TenBrink said: “Using urethane materials and specialised processes we create feet and ankles, hands, wrists, shoulders and many other skeletal bone structures needed for demonstrating new implant products and for training surgeons and medical students on new surgical procedures.”

The models are made through CAD engineering and design, 3D printers and hand sculpting and then can be used to demonstrate treatment or have LED lighting fitted to display where implants should be placed.

Steve Sevick, director of biologics for K2M, said: “Encoris’ movable, 3-D models allow both the surgeon and patient to see exactly the spine’s full disfigurement and how, step-by-step with K2M devices and grafts, the spine will be fixed and straightened,”

Encoris’ training models range from a clear bone model showing knee implants to a highly complex surgical spine trainer that produces a full range of scoliosis deformities and allows surgeons to practice on the trainer prior to operating on patients.

Medical device companies like Stryker Orthopaedics, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic use Encoris’ skeletal models and Tenbrinks said: “Medical device companies come to us to create unique presentation models that best demonstrate and define the features and benefits of their new medical products in sales and education environments.”