Plantar calcaneonavicular ligament

The ligament calcaneonavicular plantar (syn. ligament calcaneocentrale plantar, " pan band ", " Plattfußband ", English:. Jumping ligament ) is located on the plantar side ( sole side ) of the foot and connects the heel bone ( calcaneus ) to the navicular ( scaphoid, Syn os tarsi centrale).

It is conically shaped and extends between sustentacular and the plantar aspect of the navicular bone. This area of ​​the foot skeleton bears the head of the talus ( ankle bone ). Its posterior surface forms a part of the joint. Therefore, the band has a cartilage layer. Because this joint the band is remembered after his appearance on a pan called " pan band". Through its plantar side of the tendon of the tibialis posterior runs.

The plantar ligament calcaneonavicular played a major role in stabilizing the arch of the foot. Is there after, flattens and the medial aspect of the longitudinal arch and it comes to Plattfußbildung (hence the synonym " Plattfußband ").

• Band (anatomy)