Body systems & senses

Question

I teach an exercise class and wondered how many bones, tendons, sweat glands, and muscles are in human feet? Thank you! Donna

Answer

Hello Donna, <br /> <br />You asked about how many bones, muscles, tendons, and sweat glands are in human feet. Good questions! <br /> <br />I used Google athttp://google.com and the search term: <br />"anatomy of the foot" <br />to find the following sites. <br /> <br />According to this site, there are 26 bones, over 30 muscles, and more than 100 ligaments in each foot! <br /&gthttp://www.footmaxx.com/clinicians/anatomy.html <br /> <br />There is a detailed diagram of the foot with the bones named here: <br /&gthttp://www.footmaxx.com/clinicians/bones.html <br /> <br />and specific information about the joints: <br /&gthttp://www.footmaxx.com/clinicians/joints.html <br /> <br />This site repeats the above information and also states there are 33 joints in each foot. <br /&gthttp://www.podiatrychannel.com/anatomy/ <br /> <br />Cool photo of foot bones: <br /&gthttp://www.apma.org/s_apma/doc.asp?CID=14&DID=8980 <br /> <br />More cool images from the Calgary Foot Clinic <br /&gthttp://www.foottalk.com/popups/foot_anatomy1.html <br /> <br /> <br />A Patient's Guide to Foot Anatomy <br /&gthttp://www.allaboutmydoc.com/surgeonweb/surgeonId.2729/clinicId.1432/theme.theme3/country.US/language.en/page.article/docId.31167 <br />This site has detailed images with labels for bones and joints, ligaments and tendons, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels. <br /> <br />Finding the number of sweat glands took a bit more digging, I changed the search string to: <br />"sweat glands in the foot" <br /> <br />This site indicates that there are 250,000 sweat glands in each foot and excrete as much as half a pint of moisture each day! <br /&gthttp://www.foothealthcare.com/html/footfacts/footfacts.htm <br /> <br />Most other sites quoted the 250,000 number also, such as: <br /&gthttp://www.joshuakaye.com/topics2/footodor.htm <br /> <br />and this which tells you why feet stink: <br /&gthttp://science.howstuffworks.com/question514.htm <br /> <br />This was interesting to research, I have a healthier respect for my feet now. <br /> <br />Best wishes, <br />AskNSDL <br /> http://vrd.askvrd.org/services/answerschema.xml