This article is about a condition that evolves as an extra bone in the foot. Up to 2.5% of individuals are born with an extra bone right over the navicular bone in the foot in the middle of the arch.

Accessory navicular bone disorders represent a significant yet frequently under‐diagnosed anomaly in the paediatric foot. The accessory navicular is an extra ossicle located adjacent to the navicular ...

Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera had surgery on Wednesday to remove bone spurs in his right ankle and to repair a stress fracture in the navicular bone at top of the foot, the team ...

Well, that excitement was short-lived. Last week the Oregon Ducks’ leading scorer and rebounder, Bol Bol, announced that he’s played his final collegiate game due to a foot injury and is declaring for ...

Differences in bone quality between nonarthritic and arthritic ankles may illuminate future intervention strategies for ankle ...

Because navicular problems might affect soft tissue as well as bone, MRI is a better diagnostic tool than X ray in these cases, said Robert K. Schneider, DVM, MS, professor at Washington State ...

Although all dancers were actively training and performing without limitation, nine of eleven claimed to experience mild ankle pain during activity; five of these individuals also reported some pain ...

In certain cases of navicular disease, drilling a hole into the navicular bone--a procedure called core decompression that's commonly used to treat human osteonecrosis (bone death caused by poor blood ...

ATLANTA — Navicular bone. Edema. Bone stim. Throughout a 13-minute session with a small group of reporters on Friday night, Anthony Davis unloaded a heap of medical and anatomical terms, most of which ...