Morphometric Analysis of the Human Tali

Due to the very unique disposition of the articular surfaces associated with the talus, the bone and its constituent components (body and the head) are oriented in specialised spatial orientation. Thus, the force subjected to the talus in load bearing not only dictates the resultant shapes and dimensions of the articular surfaces acquired by the bone, stress on the talus also probably decides the outcome of the angular orientation of the bone in conjunction with configuring the overall architecture of the bone. Different parameters for morphometry were recorded in 100 dry tali. Among these, the neck-body angle had a mean of 153.6 ̊ on the right side and 155.2 ̊ on the left side with a‘t’ value of 2.024 and a ‘p’ value of 0.046 which was significant. Statistical analysis revealed that the correlation between the parameters studied in morphometry was found to be positive and statistically highly significant. Data analysed in this study would aid to understand the morphology of the talus, its load bearing patterns and it may also help in foot prosthesis, screw placements in fractures at related areas of foot.