Scientists group the foot’s bones into into the phalanges, tarsal bones, and metatarsal bones. The bones and joints in the feet experience wear and tear, so conditions that cause damage to the ...

Metatarsalgia refers to pain and inflammation in the ball of your foot, or forefoot. Learn about the causes, symptoms, treatments and prevention of this injury.

When the head of one metatarsal bone presses against another, the small nerve can catch between them and become inflamed. This causes metatarsal pain. Putting weight on the foot can worsen symptoms.

The fifth metatarsal is the long bone on the outer edge of the foot that connects to your smallest toe, sometimes called the pinky toe. You have five metatarsals in your foot. Each metatarsal ...

Broken bones (also called fractures) in the foot are very common. In fact, about 1 out of every 10 broken bones occurs in the foot. Here's why. The human foot has 26 bones. Divide the foot into 3 ...

Any break in the cortex of a metatarsal bone is a fracture. Advertisement. The analogy I use is, if you’ve got a teacup and it’s got a crack in it, it’s technically a broken teacup.

Bone growth occurs through the proliferation of specialized cells of the cartilage tissue, known as chondrocytes, on either ...

In contrast to traditional bunion surgery, it repositions the entire metatarsal bone in three dimensions, restoring proper alignment and stabilizing the joint with titanium hardware. This approach ...

The floor is made of metacarpal and metatarsal bones of cattle, meticulously sawn to exactly the same height. The bones were arranged in a pattern to fill gaps in the worn tiled floor, with some ...

Reports of isolated avulsion fracture at the planter lateral base of the first metatarsal without injury of the tarsometatarsal joint are very rare. A 24 year old man sustained an avulsion fracture at ...