Do you make going to the store to buy groceries a fascinating experience? Do you offer witty observations of the people you pass on the street? If so, you're a raconteur, someone who can regale his or her listeners with riveting stories, usually funny, sometimes dramatic. Raconteur comes from the French word raconter, meaning to recount.. Note its eur ending, signaling its French origin.
Tarsals are located in the top part of your feet. Think of a straight leg as an L, the tarsals are located where the L bends to form a foot.
Tarsal tunnel syndrome is a compression neuropathy of the posterior tibial nerve as it passes in the anatomical tarsal tunnel, which lies posterior to the medial malleolus and beneath the retinaculum of the flexor muscles of the foot. 1  Anterior tarsal tunnel syndrome refers to compression of the deep peroneal nerve. It is rare and causes pain, weakness, and sensory changes of the foot and ankle. Distal tarsal tunnel syndrome is caused by compression of the the first branch lateral plantar nerve or the medial calcaneal nerve and presents with heel pain. Aetiology. Tarsal tunnel syndrome is most common in active adults, but it can also occur in children: 1  It is often caused by osteoarthritis, post-traumatic ankle deformities (scar tissue may also restrict movement in the tarsal tunnel and cause nerve entrapment) or tenosynovitis.