Spinalog Gives Physiotherapy Students a Spine to Feel

Why it surfaced

The device turns touch into a closed learning loop: students feel tissue response, see force-versus-time feedback, view mixed-reality bones, and practise with an offline AI patient. Built through a University of Melbourne collaboration and tested with clinicians, it is a notably concrete answer to the problem of learning from only one lab partner’s back.

Spinalog is a physical lumbar-spine simulator for practising palpation and spinal mobilisation on realistic, varied conditions.