Team member Irene Vikatou needed only good observation to detect a high prevalence of a rare type of bone lesion called osteochondritis dissecans (OD) in the
foot bones.
In 2009 the thigh and
foot bones of St Therese of Lisieux attracted 15,000 worshippers to the 3,000-capacity Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.
Armed with only eight
foot bones, Haile-Selassie's team doesn't have enough evidence to assign a species name to the new find.
Stress fractures - cracks and breaks in the
foot bones - can become more common with age.
Ochre-stained bone tallies were probably made from the front
foot bones of roe deer and marked with a series of horizontal incisions resembling gradations on a ruler.
Examinations of her thigh, shin, and
foot bones indicate that Selam walked upright on two legs.
The `high' ankle sprains such as Platt's are often more difficult to recover from than the typical sprain, which stretches ligaments in the lower area of the leg, where the ankle and
foot bones are connected.
He also sells turtle parts, such as shells, legs and
foot bones, which are made into buttons, dishes, necklaces, ornaments, etc.
Ask your GP to refer you to a podiatrist (foot specialist) who can advise on footwear and orthoses - special devices you can insert into your shoes to realign your
foot bones and help you walk in a way that doesn't aggravate the problem.
A wing bone of the giant extinct penguin along with a 9.1 centimetre long tarsometatarsus, which would have been formed by the fusion of ankle and
foot bones, were discovered by Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche from the La Plata Museum in Argentina.