Ankle and foot
Neck of the talus
Collum tali
- How to find it
- Place your finger on the front of the ankle just distal to the joint line, where the bone clearly narrows between two wider parts. Move the foot in and out of inversion: that narrow stretch turns under your finger.
- What you use it for
- The neck is the weak point of the talus: it breaks here in a fall from height with forced dorsiflexion. The blood supply runs through it, so a fracture threatens the head.
- On the bone
- Talus
- Body region
- Ankle and foot