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  2. Metatarsophalangeal joints - Wikipedia

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    Left: toes adducted (pulled towards the center) and spread (abducted); right, both feet clenched (plantar flexed) The upper foot is clenching (plantarflexing) at the MTP joints and at the joints of the toes; the central foot is lifting the toes (dorsiflexing) at the MTP joints; and the foot flat on the ground off to the side is in a neutral ...

  3. Broken toe - Wikipedia

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    In a UK study involving nearly 6000 fractures seen in hospital, 3.6% were broken toes. [10] Fractures of big toes make up about a fifth [3] or third [8] of all toe fractures, and 5.5% of all foot and ankle fractures in major US trauma hospitals. [10] Toe fractures are the most common foot fractures. [8] About 20% of broken toes involve open ...

  4. Interphalangeal joints of the foot - Wikipedia

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    The flexor hallucis longus and flexor digitorum longus flex the interphalangeal joint of the big toe and lateral four toes, respectively. The tendons of both of these muscles cross as they reach their distal attachments. In other words, the flexor hallucis longus arises laterally, while the flexor digitorum longus arises medially.

  5. List of eponymous fractures - Wikipedia

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    Moore's fracture: Edward Mott Moore: distal radius fracture with ulnar dislocation and entrapment of styloid process under annular ligament: Moore's fracture at TheFreeDictionary.com: Pipkin fracture-dislocation: G. Pipkin: posterior dislocation of hip with avulsion fracture of fragment of femoral head by the ligamentum teres

  6. Metatarsal bones - Wikipedia

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    Stress fractures are thought to account for 16% of injuries related to sports participation, and the metatarsals are the bones most often involved. These fractures are sometimes called march fractures, based on their traditional association with military recruits after long marches. The second and third metatarsals are fixed while walking, thus ...

  7. Appendicular skeleton - Wikipedia

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    Feet and ankles (52 bones) - Left and right tarsals (14) (ankle), metatarsals (10) (foot), proximal phalanges(10), intermediate phalanges (8) and distal phalanges (10) . Through anatomical variation, the appendicular skeleton may have an accessory bone. Examples include sesamoids in the hands and feet. Some occurrences are rarer than others.

  8. List of skeletal muscles of the human body - Wikipedia

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    base of distal phalanx of hallux: fibular artery (peroneal branch of posterior tibial artery: tibial nerve, S1, S2 nerve roots flexes all joints of big toe, plantarflexes ankle: extensor hallucis longus: 2 1 flexor digitorum longus: Lower Limb, Leg, Posterior compartment, Deep, tarsal tunnel: medial tibia: distal phalanges of lateral four digits

  9. Müller AO Classification of fractures - Wikipedia

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    The Müller AO Classification of fractures is a system for classifying bone fractures initially published in 1987 [1] by the AO Foundation as a method of categorizing injuries according to therognosis of the patient's anatomical and functional outcome. "AO" is an initialism for the German "Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen", the ...