Anatom3DCalcaneus
Calcaneus · Kost patní
Skeleton
Looks like
The heel bone: the largest bone of the foot, forming the back of the foot and taking the first contact of each step.
What it does
Bears the body's weight at heel strike and anchors the Achilles tendon.
Keeping it well
Breaks in falls from a height onto the feet — the spine should be checked too. Heel pain in children who run a lot is often a growth-plate strain.
Its parts
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