September 20, 2002

Making pelvis models

Things have been a bit quiet on the Diary entries from me in the last couple of days. Next week I am going back to the UK for a series of workshops and Conference appearances and so I have been working madly trying to make as many pelves as possible before I leave.

Yes, that’s right - making pelves. Most people don’t know that this is what I do in my “spare time”, butl those pelvis models you see in our catalogue are all made by my hands, in the good old “garden shed” equivalent at our office.

It all started 15 years ago, when I was looking for a pelvis to use in my own classes. All the ones I could find has bolts and wingnuts holding them together and I thought they were insulting to women and very distasteful. What do do about it? The answer was - design and make your own.

It was quite a saga. First I had to find someone who could make the moulds (three) and this was surprisingly hard until I discovered a wonderful sculptor who found no difficulty dealing with the complex shape of bones when making the fibreglass cradles and silastic rubber inserts. The task of getting the right polyurethane mix for the casts was a lot of drama as well but eventually the best combination of ingredients was worked out after a lot of trial and error and help from a surf board manufacturer. I wanted just enough “give“ to make it possible to show how the joints move, but enough rigidity so that the model was easy to work with. Then there was the glue problem! Polyurethane is notoriously hard to stick together and I still sometimes have trouble with breakages, which I am always happy to fix.

Anyway, thousands of pelves later (I’ve given up counting) I am still at it on a regular basis. As a best selling item, I must make sure that there are enough on hand to supply customers when I am away for extended periods, so for the last three days I have been slaving away getting them done.

You didn’t know that I was so multi-skilled did you? Amazing what a bit of passion will drive you to create!

Posted by andrea at September 20, 2002 02:56 PM

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do you have a catalog for your products? do you make ligamented pelves?

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