Anatom3DProximal phalanx of left second toe
Phalanx proximalis digiti secundi pedis sinistri · Základní článek levého druhého prstu nohy
Skeleton
Looks like
The base bone of the second toe.
What it does
Links the toe to its metatarsal and carries tendons.
Keeping it well
Pain under its base joint in the ball of the foot may be a torn plantar plate or joint inflammation; ill-fitting shoes worsen it.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Bunion & foot deformity
- 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
- Ingrown toenail
- 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