Functions:
Toes assist us while walking, standing, providing balance, and weight bearing, and thrust during gait.
Diseases:
Common disease conditions include sprain or strain to the small joints of toe called a stubbed toe. There are three main forms of toe abnormalities claw toes, hammer toes and trigger toe. Hammer toe is abnormal contraction and buckling of a toe. This is because of partial or complete dislocation of one of the joint which form the toes.
Interesting Facts:
Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three. A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.
