Joints & ligaments
Calcaneonavicular ligament
Ligamentum calcaneonaviculare
- System
- Joints & ligaments
- Regions
- Lower limb, Foot
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Intertarsal joints
DescriptionUnreviewed
The calcaneonavicular ligament is the upper of two parts of the bifurcate ligament that is divided in front in a Y-shaped manner into a calcaneocuboid ligament and a calcaneonavicular part.
They are both attached behind to the deep hollow on the upper surface of the calcaneus, but the calcaneonavicular ligament is attached to the lateral side of the navicular.
(Note this is NOT the spring ligament which is commonly called the plantar calcaneonavicular ligament).
It is commonly injured in "sprain-type" inversion injuries producing an avulsion fracture at the anterolateral process of the calcaneus.
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Names
- Latin
- Ligamentum calcaneonaviculare
- English
- Calcaneonavicular ligament
- French
- Ligament calcanéonaviculaire
- Spanish
- Ligamento calcaneonavicular
- Portuguese
- Ligamento calcaneonavicular
In the same group
- Anterior talocalcaneal ligament
- Calcaneocuboid ligament
- Cuneocuboid interosseous ligament
- Dorsal calcaneocuboid ligament
- Dorsal cuboideonavicular ligament
- Dorsal cuneocuboid ligament
- Dorsal cuneonavicular ligaments
- Dorsal intercuneiform ligaments
- Intercuneiform interosseous ligaments
- Lateral talocalcaneal ligament
- Long plantar ligament
- Medial talocalcaneal ligament
- Plantar calcaneocuboid ligament
- Plantar calcaneonavicular ligament
- Plantar cuboideonavicular ligament
- Plantar cuneocuboid ligament
- Plantar cuneonavicular ligaments
- Plantar intercuneiform ligaments
- Posterior talocalcaneal ligament
- Talocalcaneal interosseous ligament
- Talonavicular ligament