Over 50's club

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Flatlander May 2020 10:19am, 24 May 2020 1,705 posts	0 Flatlander I remember exactly when Live Aid was, and what I was doing. I had a weekend off on-call work and in the morning, I had caught my foot and thought I had perhaps strained a ligament. By early afternoon, whilst watching Live Aid, the foot was aching a bit, so I went to A+E and it was discovered I had fractured a metatarsal bone! I didn't get home until about 7pm, so I ended up missing most of Live Aid!
Derby Tup May 2020 11:48am, 24 May 2020 42,157 posts	0 Derby Tup I didn’t think metatarsals had been invented then!
Flatlander May 2020 1:05pm, 24 May 2020 1,706 posts	0 Flatlander I've had mine all my life
57.5 Degrees of Pain May 2020 2:18pm, 24 May 2020 5,756 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain I can assure you that the skeletons hanging around the anatomy department in 1982/3 definitely had metatarsals DT. I didn't get that far down the body in dissection class though. Once the dentists had chopped up the top half the rest went off to the medical students.🦵🔪😉
Markymarkmark May 2020 2:51pm, 24 May 2020 11,600 posts	0 Markymarkmark Presumably theyve been there since we came down from the trees. Although they were probably called something like "ugugug" then.
ChrisHB May 2020 4:02pm, 24 May 2020 19,304 posts	0 ChrisHB I was living in Germany with a toddler and a baby in 1985.
Diogenes May 2020 4:19pm, 24 May 2020 49,018 posts	0 Diogenes I trust they were taking good care of you.
GlennR May 2020 8:12pm, 24 May 2020 50,134 posts	0 GlennR Footballers certainly didn't have metatarsals until at least the 1990s. Can you imagine Norman Hunter or Jack Charlton whining off with a fractured metatarsal?
Columba May 2020 10:05pm, 24 May 2020 19,790 posts	0 Columba I had metatarsals in the '90s. I know, because I had them operated on. 1st metatarsal osteotomy. Both feet.
Diogenes May 2020 9:08am, 25 May 2020 49,027 posts	0 Diogenes In the old days they were known just as the foot bone. This is an extract from an early edition of Gray’s Anatomy: “The toe bone is connected to the foot bone, the foot bone is connected to the ankle bone...” I don’t think they knew about tendons and ligaments back then, either. https://youtu.be/QSADH6Ev0m4