Peter Attia· MD
So hammer toes is it's a muscle imbalance due to a weakness in the foot.
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So hammer toes is it's a muscle imbalance due to a weakness in the foot.
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Hammer toes are basically when the toes start to hammer the ground. All of them are just two through five. >> Two through five. The big toe can hammer. It's just not as common as two through five.
So hammer toes is it's a muscle imbalance due to a weakness in the foot. What do you attribute the root of that to? If the bunion seems predisposed, um, not putting aside genetics and other things like that, but just environmentally, if the predisposing feature of a bunion is shoes that are pushing the big toe in, what is the environmental trigger that is most commonly driving a hammer toe?