Anatom3DLeft calcaneus
Calcaneus sinister · Levá kost patní
Skeleton
Looks like
The heel bone, the largest bone of the foot, forming the back of the foot and the heel.
What it does
Takes the impact at each step and anchors the Achilles tendon for push-off.
Keeping it well
Breaks with falls from height onto the heels — check the spine too. Morning heel pain is usually plantar fasciitis, which settles with stretching.
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- 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
- Plantar fasciitis
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency