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Hand 3D models

A hand 3D model to show your patient their median nerve compression, and the treatment you recommend. They leave with their model on their phone.

Designed by an orthopedic surgeon

Opens in your browser, no sign-up. For orthopedic and hand surgeons, neurologists, physiatrists, sports medicine physicians, rheumatologists and primary care physicians.

Wrist in 3D, palmar view: the median nerve flattened under the transverse carpal ligament, in the carpal tunnel.

The models

The hand 3D model

The model reproduces the carpal tunnel: median nerve, transverse carpal ligament, flexor tendons and sheaths. You set the lesion from the workup, then walk through the proposed treatment: splint, injection, open or endoscopic release.

Carpal tunnel syndrome

Tunnel pressure measured with wrist movement, severity and cause set from the workup, then the proposed treatment.

Lesions
Severity (mild, moderate, severe), cause (idiopathic, ganglion cyst, lipoma), median nerve variants (Lanz classification).
Treatments
Night splint, injection, open release, endoscopic release.

How it works

In the visit, in three steps

Structured information in a few minutes, which the patient can review at home.

  1. 1

    Show

    Open the model and walk through the wrist anatomy: carpal tunnel, transverse carpal ligament, median nerve, flexor tendons.

  2. 2

    Reproduce

    Set the lesion from the exam and imaging: location, type, stage, classification. Then walk through the proposed treatment, step by step.

  3. 3

    Share

    Give the patient the QR code or an image: they find their own case, in their language.

Try it with your next case: the model opens in your browser, nothing to install.

See the “Carpal tunnel syndrome” model

Questions

Questions from colleagues

Which hand conditions?

Carpal tunnel syndrome to begin with, with its reference classification (Lanz, for median nerve variants). More hand models join the catalog.

Can the wrist be moved?

Yes: the wrist anatomy supports flexion and extension from −60° to 60°. The tunnel pressure, read on the model, follows the movement (Gelberman 1981).

Are the models free?

Yes: the free plan opens every model, to show patients their diagnosis: most conditions and lesions. Treatments and other features are paid options.

Do I need an account?

Not to open a model, set the lesion and walk through the treatment. After about fifteen adjustments, you will be asked to create a free account: it saves your visits, picks them up from one time to the next, and records when the patient opens the link.

What equipment do I need?

Just a web browser, nothing to install: computer, tablet or TV screen in the exam room; the patient opens it on their phone. One click saves an image, without the interface, for the chart.

What happens to patient data?

No patient names are stored. The link given to the patient carries only the state of the model: lesion, treatment, language and visit date. A name written on the image you hand out stays on that image.

Which languages?

English, Spanish, French and Russian. The patient receives the model in the language chosen during the visit, which helps with the roughly 28 million people in the U.S. with limited English proficiency, alongside a qualified interpreter, not instead of one.

Design

Who designed this model

Model designed by Dr. Mikaël Chelli, orthopedic surgeon, based on the reference classifications and measurements. Updated October 7, 2026.

Try it with your next patient

The model opens in your browser, nothing to install, no sign-up.

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