If you pull the toes of your foot toward your nose, which movement are you performing?

• A. Plantar Flexion
• B. Inversion
• C. Dorsal Flexion
• D. Plantar Eversion

Answer: (C)

The movement you’re describing is dorsiflexion. When you pull the toes toward your nose, you lift the top of the foot toward the shin, which decreases the angle between the dorsum of the foot and the leg. This action mainly occurs at the ankle and is driven by muscles like the tibialis anterior. The opposite action is plantarflexion, where the toes point downward away from the shin (as when standing on tiptoes). Inversion and eversion involve turning the sole inward or outward, not moving the toes toward the shin. Some sources may spell it as dorsal flexion, but the standard term is dorsiflexion.