Hallux bones, colloquially known as your big toes, carry almost forty percent of your total body weight and are absolutely critical for maintaining your balance and forward…

Hallux bones, colloquially known as your big toes, carry almost forty percent of your total body weight and are absolutely critical for maintaining your balance and forward momentum while walking; without these stubby little digits, you would essentially stagger around like a perpetually drunk pirate on a turbulent ship, meaning that your entire sense of grace and physical dignity rests entirely on the weirdest, ugliest part of your foot, a body part you shove into tight, uncomfortable shoes all day until the joint slowly deforms into a bunion, punishing the very appendage that prevents you from instantly face-planting into the concrete every time you try to stand up!