Results: Morton's toe

Morton's toe, in which the second toe is longer than the big toe, has a broad range of reported prevalence, from less than 3 percent to nearly a third of the general population and as much as 90 percent of some isolated populations. Is your 2nd toe longer, shorter, or even Steven?

Morton's toe was first described as a medical condition in a 1927 article by Dudley Joy Morton, an orthopedic surgeon, in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. It is not so much that the second toe is too long, but that the first metatarsal bone, which connects the big toe to the main part of the foot, is too short. Were you aware of this?

The condition can shift too much the weight to the second metatarsal, causing pain, callus formation and musculoskeletal problems. Surgical correction is sometimes used, but proper foot support is the treatment of first resort. Have you had to have surgery on your second toe because of the weight shift?

One speculative explanation for seeing Morton's toe show up in revealing shoes in summer is an aesthetic preference for showing off such a foot design, one apparently shared by makers of Greek statuary and the sandaled Statue of Liberty. If your 2nd toe is longer, do you have a ring on it, or something else, like a tattoo or accentuate it?