Ankle and foot
Calcaneal tuberosity
Tuber calcanei
- How to find it
- The back and the underside of the heel, easily reached in prone with the knee bent.
- What you use it for
- Insertion of the Achilles tendon (tenderness in insertional tendinopathy or Haglund deformity) and origin of the plantar fascia, the tender point in plantar fasciitis.
- On the bone
- Calcaneus
- Body region
- Ankle and foot