BONTRAGER CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION TESTED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS COMPLETE REVIEW
●● How many metatarsals are in the foot?
Answer: 5
●● How many tarsals are in the foot?
Answer: 7
●● how many bones make up the foot and ankle?
Answer: 26
●● What are the 2 differences in the phalanges of the foot as compared
with the phalanges of the hand?
Answer: 1) Phalanages of the foot are smaller
2) The joint movements of the foot are more limited than those of the
hand
●● Which tuberosity of the foot is palpable and a common site of foot
trauma?
Answer: Tuberosity of base of the 5th metatarsal
,●● Where are the sesamoid bones of the foot most commonly located?
Answer: The plantar surface of the foot near the 1st metatarophalangeal
joint
●● What is the largest and strongest tarsal bone?
Answer: Calcaneus
●● What is the name of the joint found between the talus and calcaneus?
Answer: subtalar or talocalcaneal
●● List the 3 specific articular facets found in the subtalar or
talocalcaneal joint?
Answer: 1) Posterior facet
2) Anterior facet
3) Middle facet
●● The small opening, or space found in the middle of the subtalar or
talocalcaneal joint is called?
Answer: sinus tarsi or tarsal sinus
●● Calcaneus
Answer: common site for bone spurs
, ●● Talus
Answer: 1) forms an aspect of the ankle bone
2) the most superior tarsal bone
3) the 2nd largest tarsal bone
●● Cuboid
Answer: A tarsal found anterior to the calcaneus and lateral to the lateral
cuneiform
●● Navicular
Answer: Found on the medial side of the foot between the talus
●● Lateral Cuneiform
Answer: Articulates with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th metatarsal
●● Intermediate Cuneiform
Answer: The smallest of the cuneiforms
●● Medial Cuneiform
Answer: 1)The largest of the cuneiforms
2) Articulates with the 1st metatarsal
EVALUATION TESTED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS COMPLETE REVIEW
●● How many metatarsals are in the foot?
Answer: 5
●● How many tarsals are in the foot?
Answer: 7
●● how many bones make up the foot and ankle?
Answer: 26
●● What are the 2 differences in the phalanges of the foot as compared
with the phalanges of the hand?
Answer: 1) Phalanages of the foot are smaller
2) The joint movements of the foot are more limited than those of the
hand
●● Which tuberosity of the foot is palpable and a common site of foot
trauma?
Answer: Tuberosity of base of the 5th metatarsal
,●● Where are the sesamoid bones of the foot most commonly located?
Answer: The plantar surface of the foot near the 1st metatarophalangeal
joint
●● What is the largest and strongest tarsal bone?
Answer: Calcaneus
●● What is the name of the joint found between the talus and calcaneus?
Answer: subtalar or talocalcaneal
●● List the 3 specific articular facets found in the subtalar or
talocalcaneal joint?
Answer: 1) Posterior facet
2) Anterior facet
3) Middle facet
●● The small opening, or space found in the middle of the subtalar or
talocalcaneal joint is called?
Answer: sinus tarsi or tarsal sinus
●● Calcaneus
Answer: common site for bone spurs
, ●● Talus
Answer: 1) forms an aspect of the ankle bone
2) the most superior tarsal bone
3) the 2nd largest tarsal bone
●● Cuboid
Answer: A tarsal found anterior to the calcaneus and lateral to the lateral
cuneiform
●● Navicular
Answer: Found on the medial side of the foot between the talus
●● Lateral Cuneiform
Answer: Articulates with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th metatarsal
●● Intermediate Cuneiform
Answer: The smallest of the cuneiforms
●● Medial Cuneiform
Answer: 1)The largest of the cuneiforms
2) Articulates with the 1st metatarsal
