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Your tarsal bones have been re-stabilized using aids.

The foot is made up of a lot of small bones and joints. The lower leg is connected to the tarsus. Then comes the metatarsus and then the individual toes. The heel bone is part of the tarsus. It is located at the back of the foot. You can feel your calcaneus in your heel.

To stabilize bones or parts of bones, various aids can be used. They can be made of metal or plastic, for example.

Your heel bone fragments were stabilized using one or more long pins inside the bone.

The purpose of the long pins is to stabilize the relevant tarsal bone from within. To achieve this, they are inserted into the space inside the bone. The long nails are inserted through bones and join these bones together. Joints, for example, can be temporarily reinforced like this.