2023年4月6日 · To diagnose hammertoe or mallet toe, a health care provider inspects the foot. X-rays can help show the bones and joints of the feet and toes. But they're not always needed. For toes that can still unbend, roomier footwear and shoe inserts, called orthotics, or …

Hallux limitus is a condition that makes it difficult to bend your toe, which makes walking painful. It can worsen over time to the point that the joint in your big toe can no longer move. When this happens, the condition is called hallux rigidus.

2023年4月6日 · Hammertoe and mallet toe are foot problems that cause a bend in a toe or toes. Wearing shoes that don't fit well can cause hammertoe and mallet toe. Other causes are foot injury and certain illnesses, such as diabetes. Often the cause isn't known. A hammertoe has an unusual bend in the middle joint of a toe.

2024年8月5日 · Mallet toe is a deformity that affects the top joint of your toe at the tip, causing it to bend downward. Wearing shoes that squish your toes together can cause the longer toe (often the second toe) to buckle. If it stays like that too long, it can become permanent. Better footwear and practicing toe stretches can help reverse it.

Hammer toe of the big toe (Hallux Malleus) is much less common. Hammer toes develop when there is an imbalance of the muscles and tendons that pull the toe up and down. The toe will then buckle.

A hammer toe (also called hallux malleus or digitus malleus) and a claw toe are both toe deformities that usually affect the second to fourth toes. These deformities are manifested by flexion in the middle phalanx of the toe.

2021年6月7日 · Mallet Toe is a lesser toe deformity characterized by hyperflexion of the DIP joint. Diagnosis is made clinically with DIP joint hyperflexion with neutral PIP and MTP joints in a lesser toe. Treatment is a trial of nonoperative management with shoe modification and toe sleeves.

hallux ri´gidus painful flexion deformity of the great toe with limitation of motion at the metatarsophalangeal joint.

2012年1月1日 · Transverse plane component of flexible hallux varus was successfully corrected; however, a previously mild extensor hallucis longus contracture worsened postoperatively and led to recurrence of hallux varus. Key Words: Tension suture device, hallux varus, surgical complication. Accepted: December, 2011 Published: January, 2012. ISSN 1941-6806