Distal intertarsal joints (cuneonavicular, cuboideonavicular, intercuneiform and cuneocuboid)

Study entry

Classification

Small joints between the tarsal bones in front of the transverse tarsal joint. [CHECK: plane synovial type according to general sources; Moore does not give the classification]

Surfaces

Navicular with the three cuneiforms (cuneonavicular); navicular with the cuboid (cuboideonavicular); cuneiforms with each other (intercuneiform); lateral cuneiform with the cuboid (cuneocuboid).

Capsule

The bones are held so closely by dorsal, plantar and interosseous ligaments that they hardly move.

Movements

They move only slightly; inversion and eversion belong to the subtalar and transverse tarsal joints.

Blood supply

[CHECK: Moore does not describe it in the passages consulted (look in another source).]

Innervation

[CHECK: Moore does not describe it in the passages consulted (look in another source).]

Source: cap. 7, «Articulaciones del pie»; tabla 7-19

Other structures in this region

• Interosseous membrane of leg
• Obturator membrane
• Triradiate cartilage of the acetabulum
• Hip joint
• Knee joint
• Superior tibiofibular joint
• Tibiofibular syndesmosis (inferior tibiofibular joint)
• Talocrural (ankle) joint