Everything you need to know about Foot bones
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Children’s foot bones are generally broken less often then adult foot bones because children’s feet are more flexible!
children rarely break their feet due to having cartilidge
Breaking Footbones!
Foot bones usually break when something crushes, twists, bends, or even stretches the bone! Your toes are broken usually when you kick something hard. Like stubbing your toe on the dresser! Most people will break there heels when they fall from a something tall and land on there feet. And other bones usually break when you twist an ankle. Sometimes you can put small cracks in your foot bones from a long or reapeated stress. Most the time dancers, runners, gymnast or soldiers in full gear will get these stress fractures.
Broken Foot Bones?
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Doctors will generally x-ray both feet on a child so they can compare for broken feet because a children’s foot bones are still growing!
Most of the time foot bones that are broken will cause pain and swelling, usually the pain is bad that you can’t walk, but that is not always the case. Broken foot bones in the toes will generally cause less pain and you might be able to walk. Bruising or redness is common with broken foot bones.
Home Remedies
take care of your feet and they will take care of you
First aid for people with broken foot bones is generally elevation of the injured foot along with stabilization. Any kind of splint that will make the foot not move is effective. Usually a pillow wrapped around the foot like a u shape and then taped or tied with bandage will work great, don’t overwrap the foot, if the wrap is to tight it may cut off blood circulation to the foot. And if your splint causes the foot to hurt worse or makes it difficult to wiggle your toes you should remove the splint as soon as possible. Do not attempt to walk on the broken foot if it hurts. In most cases toe bones will heal themselves however medical attention should be found if your toe is not in a normal direction.
Medical Treatment
Treatment for broken foot bones usually depends on what foot bone you broke and how broken the foot bone or foot bones are. Some broken foot bones can be treated with crutches and a flat shoe. Other broken foot bones require splints or cast.
Treatment for a broken bone in the foot depends on which bone is broken and how it is broken. Some broken bones in the foot can be treated with crutches and flat-bottom shoes, others require splints or casts, and still others require surgery to repair the bones.
Bones Of the Foot!
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The 52 foot bones make up for almost 25 percent of all the bones in your body?
The human foot has 26 foot bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 muscles and tendons.
The human foot bones consist of seven tarsal foot bones: Talus, cuniforms I, II, and III, calcaneus, and navicular. There are five metatarsals I-IV, and the great toe has two phalanges and the other four toes have three in each of them. That is a total of 26 bones in each foot. There is also a sesamoid bone in the big toe, but it’s usually not counted.
