Right talus

Looks like

The ankle bone sitting between the leg bones above and the heel bone below, with no muscles attached.

What it does

Transfers the whole body weight from leg to foot and allows up-down and side-to-side ankle motion.

Keeping it well

Mostly covered by cartilage with a fragile blood supply; fractures can lead to bone death. Persistent pain after a sprain may be a cartilage lesion on its dome.

Related conditions

• Acromegaly
• Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
• Chronic venous insufficiency
• Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
• Flat feet (pes planus)
• Fractures
• Fragility fracture
• Frailty & falls in older age
• Ganglion cyst
• Gout
• Hammer toe and claw toe
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
• Lymphoedema
• Morton's neuroma
• Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
• Osteomalacia & rickets
• Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
• Osteoporosis
• Paget's disease of bone
• Restless legs syndrome
• Sarcoma
• Varicose veins
• Venomous snakebite
• Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
• Vitamin D deficiency