Calcaneus Flashcards
True or false?
The calcaneus is located under the talus!
True.
What tendon is associated with the calcaneus?
The calcaneal (Achilles’) tendon.
What separates the Achilles’ tendon from the upper part of the calcaneus?
A bursae.
What is the low part of the calcaneus bone continuous with?
The calcaneal tuberosity.
What is the forward projection of the calcaneal tuberosity?
The medial (large) and lateral process.
They are separated by a V-like shape.
What is at the anterior end of the plantar surface?
The calcaneal tubercle.
What marks the lateral surface of the calcaneus?
The fibular trochlea.
Where the fibularis longus/brevis passes through.
True or false?
The fibular trochea is located posterior from the middle of the lateral calcaneal surface!
False! It is located anterior to the middle of the lateral calcaneal surface.
What passes through the fibular trochea?
Fibularis brevis and longus muscle.
What is located posterosuperiorly to the fibular trochlea?
The tuberosity for calcaneofibular part of the laterall ankle ligament.
What is on the medial surface of calcaneus?
The sustentacum tali,
The medial calcaneus is concave.
What travels along the underside of sustentaculum tali?
The flexor hallicis longus.
What is on the superior surface of the sustentaculum tali?
The middle talar articular surface.
What are the articular surfaces for talus at the calcaneus?
The anterior, posterior, and middle talar articular surfaces.
Where is the middle talar articular surface located?
The superior of sustentaculum tali.
