Professor Anthony Redmond

speaker

124 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

Professor Anthony Redmond’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

What's Up Docs? · How can you look after your feet? · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

I guess the first thing about them is that they are so complicated.

So we have 26 bones in each foot, so 52 in both your feet, which is a quarter of all the bones in your body.

I love this fact.

We have between 35 and 35 joints between those bones, depending on exactly how they're put together, and it varies from person to person.

So in terms of the anatomy, we have the ankle joint, which is the main hinge joint at the end of your shin bones.

You have a small bone called the talus that sits in a mortise between your two shin bones.

The lumps you can feel on the inside and outside of your ankle are the axis for that hinge.

And your foot moving up and down is largely a hinge joint.

That's a straightforward movement, straightforward joint.

Below that, or as part of that joint, you have this bone, the talus.

And then underneath that, you have your calcaneus, the heel bone, which is the big lump that you can feel at the back of your foot.

It has a movement that's occurring in three planes.

So if you move it up and down, you also get movement side to side and in rotation.

Okay.

And that's absolutely key to our foot having different roles at different points in the gait cycle and whether the rest of the foot is a loose floppy bag of bones or whether it tightens up into a much more rigid energy-saving structure.

You won't feel it as much if you take a step, but while you're sitting, like we are now, if you roll your foot inwards and outwards, you can potentially feel that that's doing things in the rest of your foot, not just in the joints underneath your ankle.

If you roll it inwards, the whole foot flattens, and that would make it a much more adaptable, flexible shock absorber.

And then if you roll to the outside border of your foot, then that's when it becomes a much tighter, more rigid stroke.

Yeah, and in functional units.

There's so much going on in terms of the anatomy, there's so much complexity.

Showing 1–20 of 124 · page 1 of 7