Foot Anatomy 101 – How Many of These Facts Do You Know?

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Nobody thinks about how important their feet are until they are in pain, or they have lost the ability to walk.Your feet are not only your foundation, but they are your main source of transportation.

Do you know much about your feet, including their construction and how they function?

My reflexology colleague, Bill Flocco, of the American Academy of Reflexology in California, has compiled a list of interesting facts about feet. Lets see how many of them you know.

BONES IN THE FEET

A quarter of all the bones in your body are found in your two feet.
The normal foot has 26 bones providing structural support, 28 bones when you include the 2 large sesamoid bones.
There are extra small bones called sesamoid bones located in the tendons of each foot, near joints.
Two larger sesamoid bones are imbedded in each foot, close to the base of the big toe
An additional 14 to 26 smaller sesamoid bones can be found in various other parts of each foot.
The foot bones are composed of three sections: the toes, phalanges; the long bones in the middle, called metatarsals; and the third section, known as the ankle bones, are called tarsals.
There are 14 phalanges in the toes.
The big toe is also called the Great Toe and the Hallux
The big toe has two bones.
Each of the other four toes has 3 bones (phalanges); the distal phalanges (distal meaning further away from the body); the middle, a.k.a. medial phalanges; and the proximal phalanges (proximal meaning closest to the body.

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