Anatom3DArticular capsules of metatarsophalangeal joints
Capsulae articulationum metatarsophalangearum · Kloubní pouzdra metatarzofalangeálních kloubů
Joints & cartilage
Looks like
The capsules of the ball-of-the-foot joints, where the long foot bones meet the toes.
What it does
Enclose the toe base joints, which bend back sharply when we push off in walking.
Keeping it well
Gout classically strikes the big toe one; bunions and stiff big toe (hallux rigidus) also affect it. A hot red big toe joint needs a doctor.
Related conditions
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Lyme disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Morton's neuroma
- Osteoarthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite