Anatom3DAbductor hallucis
Musculus abductor hallucis · Odtahovač palce nohy
Muscles
Looks like
A muscle along the inner edge of the sole, from the heel bone to the base of the big toe.
What it does
Moves the big toe away from the others and supports the inner arch.
Keeping it well
It can press on the nerves leaving the tarsal tunnel; it is weak and overstretched in bunions.
Related conditions
- Botulism
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Fibromyalgia
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Morton's neuroma
- Muscular dystrophy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite