This article is about a condition that evolves as an extra bone in the foot. Up to 2.5% of individuals are born with an extra bone right over the navicular bone in the foot in the middle of the arch.

Accessory navicular bone disorders represent a significant yet frequently under‐diagnosed anomaly in the paediatric foot. The accessory navicular is an extra ossicle located adjacent to the navicular ...

I am a 16-year-old runner. Two years ago I started having pain on the inside of my left foot. An orthopedic surgeon diagnosed the cause to be an “accessary navicular bone” in my foot. He said I did ...

I just recently developed severe pain at the small bump (bone) above my right foot arch. If surgery is only a temporary solution, since the cartilage grows back, what can be done to relieve or prevent ...

In certain cases of navicular disease, drilling a hole into the navicular bone--a procedure called core decompression that's commonly used to treat human osteonecrosis (bone death caused by poor blood ...

Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera had surgery on Wednesday to remove bone spurs in his right ankle and to repair a stress fracture in the navicular bone at top of the foot, the team ...

Garland senior Elizabeth Sholden spikes the ball during a volleyball game at Berkner High School in Richardson on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Sholden was born with an extra bone in each foot. After ...

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid rebroke the navicular bone in his right foot and will soon have surgery, reports the Philadelphia Daily News’ Bob Cooney. The 76ers announced on July 11 that ...

On July 11th the Sixers announced that Joel Embiid would require a second surgery to repair the navicular bone in his right foot, an injury that was first discovered mere days before the 2014 draft, ...

Joel Embiid rebroke the same bone in his right foot that cost him his rookie season with the Philadelphia 76ers, according to the Philadelphia Daily News' Bob Cooney: Of course, there is the impending ...