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bones in the footconnection between vampire bats and a campers big toeRight now, you are looking at a foot! I bet you do a lot of walking during the day so you definitely appreciate how hard your feet work! In particular, the hinge joints....

Your toes use hinge joints (back-and-forth movements like hinges on a door). Elbows, knees and fingers also have these types of joints.

Hinge joints are classified as a movable joint. The other movable joints in your body are pivot, ball-and-socket and gliding joints.

 

 

when your foot falls asleep, it is called neurapraxia