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The Foot

• Bones• Joint• Muscles• Artery & Nerves

Tarsometatarsal joints

Metatarsophalangeal joints

Interphalangeal joints

Arches of the Foot• Arches enable the foot to support the

weight of the body

Ligament and muscle support

Ligament and muscle support

1. Deep transverse intermetatarsal ligament

2. Flexor tendon sheaths

3. Plantar ligament of the MP joints

4. MP joint

Flexor tendon sheath

Plantar ligament of the MP joints

MP joint

Plantar aponeurosis insersion

Achilles Tendon&

Plantar Fascia

The Foot

• Bones• Joint• Muscles• Artery & Nerves

Muscles

• Extensors– long

• Extersor hallucis longus• Extersor digitorum longus

– Short• Extersor hallucis brevis• Extersor digitorum brevis

Muscles

• Flexors – long

• Flexor hallucis longus• Flexor digitorum longus

Small plantar muscles

1. Interosseous muscles

2. short muscles in the middle of the foot

3. short muscles for the 1st phalanx

4. short muscles for the 5th phalanx

Interosseous muscles

Small plantar muscles

1. Interosseous muscles

2. short muscles for the 1st phalanx

3. short muscles for the 5th phalanx

4. short muscles in the middle of the foot

Adductor hallucis

Flexor hallucis brevis

insertions

Small plantar muscles

1. Interosseous muscles

2. short muscles for the 1st phalanx

3. short muscles for the 5th phalanx

4. short muscles in the middle of the foot

Small plantar muscles

1. Interosseous muscles

2. short muscles for the 1st phalanx

3. short muscles for the 5th phalanx

4. short muscles in the middle of the foot