The foot/ankle complex (particularly the hindfoot) is frequently injured in a wide array of debilitating events, such as car crashes. Numerical models and experimental tests have been used to assess injury risk, but most do not account for the variations in ankle posture that frequently occur during these events. In this study, the positions of the bones of the foot/ankle complex (particularly the hindfoot) were quantified over a range of postures. Computed Tomography (CT) scans were taken of a male cadaveric leg under axial loading with the ankle in five postures for which fractures are commonly reported. The difference in the location of the talus and calcaneus between the neutral and each repositioned posture was quantified, and substantial displacements and rotations were observed for all postures tested (talus range:​ 5-25˚, 2-12 mm;​ calcaneus range:​ 8-25˚, 1-24 mm). Strains were also recorded at seven locations on bones of the ankle during testing, and found to be highest in the calcaneus during inversion, and highest in the talus during eversion. These postural changes likely affect the load pathway of the foot/ankle complex, potentially reducing the fracture threshold from that of the neutral case, and changing the location of fracture. This highlights the need for injury predicting studies to account for these positional changes, and develop injury criteria under the most vulnerable conditions.