Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Is it possible to move each toe individually? Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 8 months ago. Active 2 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 23k times. Big toe and pinky: no problem, but the three middle ones: I can't. I wonder if some people maybe a Yogi are able to control each of their toe individually. I Googled the question, but the answers I found contradicts each other and are often not clear.
Improve this question. Dylan Wheeler 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges. Surb Surb 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. I am able to independently move most of my toes. It's just something I've always done. Extrinsic Extensors. Intrinsic Extensors.
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Follow Following. Michele McGinnis Join 49 other followers. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Loading Comments Oddly enough, this very subject has been fascinating me for the past few weeks.
I just noticed this week that I am getting some control over my little toe - i can hold the rest of my toes together and move my little toe away.
I think it definitely has to do with normally having no reason to move our toes individually. The human foot requires toes for balance while walking. If your toes are amputated, you will not be able to walk properly even afater the wounds heal. If the toes' anatomy was set up for grater dexterity, they might not be as good for walking. Ever look at apes' feet? The feet of a chimp are much more like human hands than human feet; they do more gripping and less walking.
We humans sacrificed toe dexterity for bipedality. The Sensory and Motor Homunculi are models of humans if our body parts were proportional in size to the amount of brain area responsible for controlling it, and illustrate nicely how little of our brain is involved with our feet compared to our hands. If your species had any good reason Your species? What species are you, sfender? When I was 12, I read a science fiction novel where a guy, living in space, was nearly as handy with his feet as with his hands The Rolling Stones, by Heinlein.
This encouraged me to use my feet more. When I was 17, I injured my back in a sky diving accident. My feet came in handy. Now I pick stuff up with my feet all the time, to avoid bending over. Not complex stuff, just gripping and lifting, but I can be rather good at the balancing part in the process.
Clearly it's all about need and practice, and a little about anatomy. The areas of your brain responsible for diffrent parts of the body can actually change in size depending on how much you use them. I saw a film in fifth grade of a woman with no arms who could do everything with her toes that hands could do. I practiced for about two months. I made very little progress, but I developed independent control of my pinkie toes that I still have today. It's all about practice.
Most things are. That takes a lot of practice and most people have no reason to put that much effort into it. Compare that to the muscles of the hand and forearm. There are a number of separate muscles just for control of the thumb.
Is that you? Another monkey-toe person, here. Watch out for straining your torso muscles too much. Sometimes holding your foot with the opposite hand is more comfortable than the parallel hold. Wiggle all of your toes together, while holding the big toe and the three smaller toes still with your hand. Do you feel the resistance? This resistance is what you want to get rid of. Slowly decrease the amplitude of the wiggling motion. You can do this with your eyes closed to avoid getting distracted by the visual feedback which might prove deceiving.
Over the span of a couple of weeks you should be able to do it without holding the other toes, signifying complete mastery of the small-toe-wiggling move. Remember that although it might be frustrating, repetition is key. It takes dedication and devotion to gain control of these muscles but once you do it's as easy as wiggling your big toe.
I was born like that too. I thought that everybody could do it because it takes almost no effort for me. Don't worry, you're not alone! Yes No. Not Helpful 9 Helpful
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