Anatom3DExtensor hallucis brevis
Musculus extensor hallucis brevis · Krátký natahovač palce nohy
Muscles
Looks like
A small muscle on top of the foot, the inner part of the short toe extensor, ending on the big toe.
What it does
Helps lift (straighten) the big toe.
Keeping it well
Rarely injured; a soft swelling on the top of the foot is more often a ganglion or this muscle belly.
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