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For patientsPublished 28 August 2026

What your clinician is showing you

Content pending clinical review / İçerik klinik incelemeden geçmemiştir

If your physiotherapist turned a screen towards you and showed you a 3D model, this is what you were looking at.

It is a model, not a scan of you

The anatomy on screen is a general model. It is not an image of your body, and nothing about it was measured from you. Your clinician uses it the way they might use a diagram or a plastic model — to point at something and show you where it sits and how it moves.

You can ask them to change it

The model can be rotated, and individual structures can be shown on their own with everything else faded out. If something was hard to follow, it is reasonable to ask to see it again from a different angle, or on its own.

Two sets of words

The same structures have a professional name and a plain-language name, and the screen can switch between them. If a word was unfamiliar, ask which one you were hearing.

What it does not do

It does not diagnose anything and it does not decide your treatment. It is there so that a conversation about your body can happen with something to look at.

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