 So let's quickly get over the more boring aspects of the subject, and that is the anatomy of the foot quickly, so that we can get to the more interesting repartee. The foot is a pretty complex structure, not only composed, as we said, of 26 bones, but also 33 joints and over 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments. And it's divided into three parts with good names, the forefoot, the midfoot, and the hindfoot.