The reason we have 10 toes is because 10 toes is a good number for toes to provide proper balance and help with our gait and stride.
You can walk without your toes but you won't be able to walk normally without your toes.
You would have to pick up your feet and walk a bit like Frankenstein would and would have trouble with balance and could fall over.
The purpose of our toes is to provide us with balance, posture and to support our body weight.
Human toes also provide us with propulsion during our gait cycle.
Our toes help thrust our body forward when we walk and help to increase the length of our stride which allows us to run faster.
Our big toes bear just about 2 times the amount of our weight as all of our other toes combined!
And the pinky toes are the least important toes.
People who are born without pinky toes or those who lose their pinky toes in accidents will see very little change in the function of their feet.
Without our human toes, the entire mechanism for walking wouldn't work as it should and it wouldn't be possible to tighten the plantar fascia, and our gait would turn into something that looks like a Frankenstein walk.
The human foot consists of multiple bones and soft tissues which support the weight of the upright human.
Specifically, the toes assist the human while walking, providing balance, weight-bearing, and thrust during gait.
Losing one or more toes does not necessarily mean that you won't be able to walk or even run again.
However, it will adversely affect your balance and stability, and potentially change your walking biomechanics.
Even though the big toe is a big deal, losing it happens more often than most would think.
However, losing this toe will not hinder your ability to do the things you want to do in life.