Exempel på metatarsal

• They frequently occur at sites on the foot subjected to pressure, especially over the plantar aspect of the foot and metatarsal heads.

• However, he was able to play only because someone had mended his metatarsal bone a few weeks earlier.

• Steadily increasing pressure forces the toes and metatarsals against the metal protrusions, shredding the flesh of the toes and pulverizing their bones.

• After the pelvis come the femur (thigh), patella, stifle joint, tibia, fibula, tarsal (hock) bone and joint, large metatarsal (cannon) and small metatarsal (splint) bones.

• The metatarsal pads, preserved only in deeply imprinted footprints, are united in a single unit.

• Similarly, weak dorsiflexors are overpowered by stronger plantarflexors, causing a plantarflexed first metatarsal and anterior pes cavus.

• Additionally, several metatarsals were removed for radiocarbon dating and were returned to the site once testing was complete.

• This is because the first metatarsal, behind the big toe, is short compared to the second metatarsal, next to it.

• It also commonly features a varus (inverted) hindfoot, a plantarflexed position of the first metatarsal, an adducted forefoot, and dorsal contracture of the toes.

• The base articulates behind, by a triangular surface cut obliquely in a transverse direction, with the cuboid; and medially, with the fourth metatarsal.

• It generally develops in the second metatarsal, but can occur in any metatarsal.

• She (9 yr old girl) underwent curettage through a small oval corticotomy window on the first metatarsal bone.

• He injured the third metatarsal of his right foot and was out for two months.

• This pad helps to splay the metatarsal bones and create more space for the nerve so as to relieve pressure and irritation.

• They are condyloid joints meaning an elliptical or rounded surface (of the metatarsal bones) come close to the shallow cavities (of the proximal phalanges).