Sentences with word «hallux»

For the prevention of hallux valgus using shoes that separates each toe of your foot.

Adding insult to injury, a bone spur can develop where the bones rub together, and this overgrowth can keep the toe from bending as much as it needs to when you walk, resulting in a stiff big toe (technically called hallux rigidus).

Modern human footprints reflect the specialized anatomy and function of the human foot, which is characterized by a fully adducted hallux [big toe in line with the other toes], a large and robust calcaneus [heel] and tarsal region, a pronounced medial longitudinal arch, and short toes.

It's true that in ancient Rome and in hospitals the big toe is called hallux, which is a major improvement over «big», and not just because it's got a sexy X in the name.

The feet of our closest relatives, the great apes, look more like a human hand with a thumb - like hallux that sticks out to the side.

Lift - off in the African apes is variable, but it usually involves relatively low pressure during final contact by both the lateral toes and widely abducted hallux, in stark contrast to modern human foot function.

If you develop hallux rigidus, wearing the right shoes is important.

At the start of each lunge, the subjects lined up the distal end of their first hallux of their forward, nontested foot to a line that was taped at 80 cm from a reference point.

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Here, we report hominin footprints in two sedimentary layers dated at 1.51 to 1.53 million years ago (Ma) at Ileret, Kenya, providing the oldest evidence of an essentially modern human — like foot anatomy, with a relatively adducted hallux, medial longitudinal arch, and medial weight transfer before push - off.

The surgery went well despite having a highly advanced case of hallux rigidus.

Shoes interfere with this natural process and can promote plantar fasciitis, hallux valgus, bunions, ingrown toenails, corns, and Morton's neuroma.

The combination of a long sole, five short forward - pointing toes without claws, and a hallux («big toe») that is larger than the other toes, is unique.

Although the metatarsal robusticity sequence is human - like and the hallux is fully adducted, other intrinsic proportions and pedal features are more ape - like.

Here the heel and lateral mid-foot make contact with the ground first, followed by contact with the lateral toes that are often curled and with a hallux that is often widely abducted.

This is followed by contact with the lateral side of the foot and metatarsal heads, after which weight transfers to the ball of the foot with peak pressure under the medial metatarsal heads, and finally ending with toe - off pressure under the hallux.

I am nowadays more convinced than I formerly was by the arguments of the «obligate terrestrial school»; for example Latimer (1991) lists quite a number of features of the lower limb that resemble the human condition and no other, such as that the hallux (big toe) of A. afarensis is not abductable as would be required for grasping.