Rood & Riddle Podiatry: TLC Helps Arthrodesis Case Recover From Toe Crack originally appeared on Paulick Report.

The pad hides a sixth toe — a backward-pointing strut that evolved from one of their sesamoids, a set of small tendon-anchoring bones in the animal's ankle ... the same sesamoid bone into ...

Your hands, feet, and knees all contain sesamoid bones. Sesamoiditis is a type of ... but this condition can also affect joints like the ankle, elbow, knee, and wrist. The most common and obvious ...

Gould pointed out that the corresponding bone in the panda ankle is somewhat oversized, which he suggested was the result of genes that controlled the growth of the sesamoid in all its limbs.

However, Giants writer Michael Eisen later reported that foot and ankle specialist ... time anyone sang the "hip bone's connected to the leg bone" song, the sesamoid probably didn't come up.

The bone, which is a sesamoid bone, or one that's embedded in tendons, is three times more common in humans now than it was a century ago, scientists reported Wednesday (April 17) in the Journal ...