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HAMMERTOES

Your little toes help to balance and propel your body when you move. As your foot flattens, the little toes bend to grip the ground. Then they straighten, acting like levers to push your foot so you can walk, run or dance. But if the front of your foot is wide, you may develop a problem know as a hammertoe. 

Hammer toes make the middle toes look like pyramids. It's like the toes are being pushed up from the bottom and the middle joint sticks up forming a triangle. What you need to do is provide plenty of room.

Hammertoes may be flexible or rigid, depending on the joint's ability to move. A flexible joint may become more rigid as you age.

Both drawing are of a Hammer Toe. The first is of a lower view and the second offer an upper view of the second angulated toe.

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